{"id":"sn56.49","title":"Sineru, King of Mountains (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.49","title":"Sineru, King of Mountains (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn56.49:0","sourceIds":["sn56.49:0.1","sn56.49:0.2","sn56.49:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.49\n5. Papātavagga\nPaṭhamasinerupabbatarājasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.49\n5. A Cliff\nSineru, King of Mountains (1st)"}},{"id":"sn56.49:1","sourceIds":["sn56.49:1.1","sn56.49:1.2","sn56.49:1.3","sn56.49:1.4","sn56.49:1.5","sn56.49:1.6","sn56.49:1.7","sn56.49:1.8","sn56.49:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso sinerussa pabbatarājassa satta muggamattiyo pāsāṇasakkharā upanikkhipeyya.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ—yā vā satta muggamattiyo pāsāṇasakkharā upanikkhittā, yo vā sinerupabbatarājā”ti?\n“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ, yadidaṁ—sinerupabbatarājā;\nappamattikā satta muggamattiyo pāsāṇasakkharā upanikkhittā.\nSaṅkhampi na upenti, upanidhampi na upenti, kalabhāgampi na upenti sinerupabbatarājānaṁ upanidhāya satta muggamattiyo pāsāṇasakkharā upanikkhittā”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, ariyasāvakassa diṭṭhisampannassa puggalassa abhisametāvino etadeva bahutaraṁ dukkhaṁ yadidaṁ parikkhīṇaṁ pariyādinnaṁ; appamattakaṁ avasiṭṭhaṁ.\nSaṅkhampi na upeti, upanidhampi na upeti, kalabhāgampi na upeti, purimaṁ dukkhakkhandhaṁ parikkhīṇaṁ pariyādinnaṁ upanidhāya yadidaṁ sattakkhattuparamatā;\nyo ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose a person was to place on Sineru, the king of mountains, seven pebbles the size of mung beans.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the seven pebbles the size of mung beans? Or Sineru, the king of mountains?”\n“Sir, Sineru, the king of mountains, is certainly more.\nThe seven pebbles the size of mung beans are tiny.\nCompared to Sineru, they don’t count, there’s no comparison, they’re not worth a fraction.”\n“In the same way, for an individual with comprehension, a noble disciple accomplished in view, the suffering that’s over and done with is more, what’s left is tiny.\nCompared to the mass of suffering in the past that’s over and done with, it doesn’t count, there’s no comparison, it’s not worth a fraction, since there are at most seven more lives.\nSuch an individual truly understands about suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path."}},{"id":"sn56.49:2","sourceIds":["sn56.49:2.1","sn56.49:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.49/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."}