Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
4. Na Tumhāka Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
4. On Not Yours
Sutta 37
Paṭhama Ānanda Suttaṃ
Ānanda (1)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī
In jeta Grove,
at Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
Then the venerable Ānanda came to the Exalted One,
saluted him
and sat down at one side.
As he sat at one side,
the Exalted One thus addressed the venerable Ānanda:
"If they were to ask you, Ānanda,
'Friend Ānanda, what are the things
in which is discerned uprising,
in which is discerned passing away,
in which is discerned otherwiseness
while they last?'[1] -
what would you reply to such a question?"
"If they asked me, lord:
'Friend Ānanda, what are the things
in which is discerned uprising,
in which is discerned passing away,
in which is discerned otherwiseness
while they last?'
thus, lord, should I make answer:
'It is of body, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts [35] is discerned.
It is of feeling, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of perception, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of the activities, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of consciousness, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
These are the things, friends,
in which uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.'
Thus questioned, lord, thus should I make answer."
§
"Well said! Well said, Ānanda!
It is indeed of body, Ānanda,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of feeling, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of perception, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of the activities, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
It is of consciousness, friends,
that uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
These indeed, Ānanda, are the things
in which uprising is discerned,
that passing away is discerned,
that otherwiseness while it lasts is discerned.
Thus questioned, Ānanda, thus should you make answer."
[1] To illustrate the terms 'uprising' (uppādo), 'passing away' (vayo), 'instability' (aññathattaṃ), and 'fixity' (ṭhiti), Comy. quotes a Porāṇa or ancient saying which may be thus translated:
"Birth is said to be th' uprising:
passing away is called the term:
Ageing, instabibty; fixity, life's maintenance."
Cf. A. ii. 152.
