Aṇguttara Nikāya
Chakka Nipāta
X. Ānisaṇsa Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sixes
Chapter X: Advantages
Sutta 105
Bhava Suttaṃ
Becoming[1]
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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[1] Thus have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, these three spheres of becoming
must be given up,
and there must be training
in three trainings.
§
What three spheres must be given up?
[310] The sphere of sense-desire,
the form-sphere[2]
and the formless spheres of becoming.
These three spheres
must be given up.
■
And in what three
must there be training?
In further[3] virtue,
in further thought
and in further insight.
In these three trainings there must be training.
§
Verily, monks, when by a monk these three spheres of becoming
have been given up
and in these three trainings
he in training has been trained,
the monk is said[4] to have cut off craving,
rolled back the bolts,
and mastering pride completely,
has made an end of Ill.'
[1] Cf. A. iv, 52.
[2] Rūpa-bhavo = the Brahma-world.
[3] Adhi-
[4] Cf. above V, § 200.
