{"id":"sn50.55-66","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn50.55-66","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn50.55-66:0","sourceIds":["sn50.55-66:0.1","sn50.55-66:0.2","sn50.55-66:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 50.55–66\n6. Punagaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nPācīnādisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 50.55–66\n6. Another Chapter of Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSloping East, Etc."}},{"id":"sn50.55-66:1","sourceIds":["sn50.55-66:1.1","sn50.55-66:1.2","sn50.55-66:1.3","sn50.55-66:1.4","sn50.55-66:1.5","sn50.55-66:1.6","sn50.55-66:1.7","sn50.55-66:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu, saddhābalaṁ bhāveti rāgavinayapariyosānaṁ dosavinayapariyosānaṁ mohavinayapariyosānaṁ …\nevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nVitthāretabbā.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nGaṅgāpeyyālavaggo chaṭṭho.","en":"“Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops the five powers slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”\n(Tell in full for each of the different rivers as in SN 45.91–102, removal of greed version.)"}},{"id":"sn50.55-66:2","sourceIds":["sn50.55-66:2.0","sn50.55-66:2.1","sn50.55-66:2.2","sn50.55-66:2.3","sn50.55-66:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCha pācīnato ninnā,\ncha ninnā ca samuddato;\nDvete cha dvādasa honti,\nvaggo tena pavuccatīti.","en":"Six on slanting to the east,\nand six on slanting to the ocean;\nthese two sixes make twelve,\nand that’s how this chapter is recited."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn50.55-66/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."}