{"id":"sn56.53","title":"Where the Waters Join Together (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.53","title":"Where the Waters Join Together (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn56.53:0","sourceIds":["sn56.53:0.1","sn56.53:0.2","sn56.53:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.53\n6. Abhisamayavagga\nPaṭhamasambhejjasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.53\n6. Comprehension\nWhere the Waters Join Together (1st)"}},{"id":"sn56.53:1","sourceIds":["sn56.53:1.1","sn56.53:1.2","sn56.53:1.3","sn56.53:1.4","sn56.53:1.5","sn56.53:1.6","sn56.53:1.7","sn56.53:1.8","sn56.53:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yatthimā mahānadiyo saṁsandanti samenti, seyyathidaṁ—\ngaṅgā, yamunā, aciravatī, sarabhū, mahī, tato puriso dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni uddhareyya.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ—yāni dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni, yaṁ vā sambhejjaudakan”ti?\n“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ, yadidaṁ—saṁbhejjaudakaṁ; appamattakāni dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni.\nSaṅkhampi na upenti, upanidhampi na upenti, kalabhāgampi na upenti saṁbhejjaudakaṁ upanidhāya dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatānī”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, ariyasāvakassa …pe…\nyogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, there are places where the great rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—join together and converge.\nSuppose a person was to draw two or three drops of water from such a place.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the two or three drops drawn out or the water in the confluence?”\n“Sir, the water in the confluence is certainly more. The two or three drops drawn out are tiny.\nCompared to the water in the confluence, it doesn’t count, there’s no comparison, it’s not worth a fraction.”\n“In the same way, for a noble disciple …\nThat’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.53/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."}