{"id":"sn48.57","title":"With the Divinity Sahampati","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn48.57","title":"With the Divinity Sahampati","units":[{"id":"sn48.57:0","sourceIds":["sn48.57:0.1","sn48.57:0.2","sn48.57:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.57\n6. Sūkarakhatavagga\nSahampatibrahmasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 48.57\n6. The Boar’s Cave\nWith the Divinity Sahampati"}},{"id":"sn48.57:1","sourceIds":["sn48.57:1.1","sn48.57:1.2","sn48.57:1.3","sn48.57:1.4","sn48.57:1.5","sn48.57:1.6","sn48.57:1.7","sn48.57:1.8","sn48.57:1.9","sn48.57:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā uruvelāyaṁ viharati najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhe paṭhamābhisambuddho.\nAtha kho bhagavato rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n“pañcindriyāni bhāvitāni bahulīkatāni amatogadhāni honti amataparāyaṇāni amatapariyosānāni.\nKatamāni pañca?\nSaddhindriyaṁ bhāvitaṁ bahulīkataṁ amatogadhaṁ hoti amataparāyaṇaṁ amatapariyosānaṁ.\nVīriyindriyaṁ …pe…\nsatindriyaṁ …pe…\nsamādhindriyaṁ …pe…\npaññindriyaṁ bhāvitaṁ bahulīkataṁ amatogadhaṁ hoti amataparāyaṇaṁ amatapariyosānaṁ.\nImāni pañcindriyāni bhāvitāni bahulīkatāni amatogadhāni honti amataparāyaṇāni amatapariyosānānī”ti.","en":"At one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.\nThen as he was in private retreat this thought came to his mind,\n“When these five faculties are developed and cultivated they have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.\nWhat five?\nThe faculties of faith,\nenergy,\nmindfulness,\nimmersion,\nand wisdom.\nWhen these five faculties are developed and cultivated they have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.”"}},{"id":"sn48.57:2","sourceIds":["sn48.57:2.1","sn48.57:2.2","sn48.57:2.3","sn48.57:2.4","sn48.57:2.5","sn48.57:2.6","sn48.57:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho brahmā sahampati bhagavato cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya—seyyathāpi nāma balavā puriso samiñjitaṁ vā bāhaṁ pasāreyya, pasāritaṁ vā bāhaṁ samiñjeyya; evameva brahmaloke antarahito bhagavato purato pāturahosi.\nAtha kho brahmā sahampati ekaṁsaṁ uttarāsaṅgaṁ karitvā yena bhagavā tenañjaliṁ paṇāmetvā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“evametaṁ, bhagavā, evametaṁ sugata.\nPañcindriyāni bhāvitāni bahulīkatāni amatogadhāni honti amataparāyaṇāni amatapariyosānāni.\nKatamāni pañca?\nSaddhindriyaṁ bhāvitaṁ bahulīkataṁ amatogadhaṁ hoti amataparāyaṇaṁ amatapariyosānaṁ …pe… paññindriyaṁ bhāvitaṁ bahulīkataṁ amatogadhaṁ hoti amataparāyaṇaṁ amatapariyosānaṁ.\nImāni pañcindriyāni bhāvitāni bahulīkatāni amatogadhāni honti amataparāyaṇāni amatapariyosānāni.","en":"Then the divinity Sahampati knew the Buddha’s train of thought. As easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, he vanished from the realm of divinity and reappeared in front of the Buddha.\nHe arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his cupped palms toward the Buddha, and said:\n“That’s so true, Blessed One! That’s so true, Holy One!\nWhen these five faculties are developed and cultivated they have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.\nWhat five?\nThe faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom.\nWhen these five faculties are developed and cultivated they have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination."}},{"id":"sn48.57:3","sourceIds":["sn48.57:3.1","sn48.57:3.2","sn48.57:3.3","sn48.57:3.4","sn48.57:3.5","sn48.57:3.6","sn48.57:3.7","sn48.57:3.8","sn48.57:3.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhūtapubbāhaṁ, bhante, kassape sammāsambuddhe brahmacariyaṁ acariṁ.\nTatrapi maṁ evaṁ jānanti:\n‘sahako bhikkhu, sahako bhikkhū’ti.\nSo khvāhaṁ, bhante, imesaṁyeva pañcannaṁ indriyānaṁ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā kāmesu kāmacchandaṁ virājetvā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ brahmalokaṁ upapanno.\nTatrapi maṁ evaṁ jānanti:\n‘brahmā sahampati, brahmā sahampatī’ti.\nEvametaṁ, bhagavā, evametaṁ sugata.\nAhametaṁ jānāmi, ahametaṁ passāmi yathā imāni pañcindriyāni bhāvitāni bahulīkatāni amatogadhāni honti amataparāyaṇāni amatapariyosānānī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"Once upon a time, sir, I lived the spiritual life under the fully awakened Buddha Kassapa.\nThere they knew me as\nthe mendicant Sahaka.\nBecause of developing and cultivating these same five faculties I lost desire for sensual pleasures. When my body broke up, after death, I was reborn in a good place, in the realm of divinity.\nThere they know me as\nthe divinity Sahampati.\nThat’s so true, Blessed One! That’s so true, Holy One!\nI know and see how when these five faculties are developed and cultivated they have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.57/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}