Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
7. Arahatta 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
7. On the Arahant
Sutta 72
Surādha Suttaṃ
Surādha[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.
Now the venerable Surādha came to the Exalted One,
and saluting him,
sat down at one side.
So seated the venerable Surādha thus addressed the Exalted One:
"How in him who knows,
how in him who sees, lord,
in this body with its consciousness,
and likewise in all external objects,
has mind gone away from all ideas of 'I' and 'mine,'
and has passed beyond the ways of conceit[2]
and is utterly liberated?'
"Whatsoever material object, Surādha,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
gross or subtle,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me' -
so seeing things as [68] they really are,
by right insight,
one is liberated without grasping.
■
Whatsoever feeling, Surādha,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
gross or subtle,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me' -
that is seeing things as they really are,
by right insight.
■
Whatsoever perception, Surādha,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
gross or subtle,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me' -
so seeing things as they really are,
by right insight,
one is liberated without grasping.
■
Whatsoever activities, Surādha,
be they past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
gross or subtle,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me' -
so seeing things as they really are,
by right insight,
one is liberated without grasping.
■
Whatsoever consciousness, Surādha,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
gross or subtle,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me' -
so seeing things as they really are,
by right insight,
one is liberated without grasping.
Thus, Surādha,
in him who knows,
in him who sees, lord,
in this body with its consciousness,
and likewise in all external objects,
has mind gone away from all ideas of 'I' and 'mine,'
and has passed beyond the ways of conceit
and is utterly liberated."
Thereupon the venerable Surādha gladly heard the words of the Exalted One
and welcomed them,
and he rose from his seat,
saluted the Exalted One
and departed.
Thereafter the venerable Surādha,
dwelling solitary,
secluded,
zealous,
ardent
and aspiring,
in no long time
attained that goal supreme of the righteous life,
to win which the clansmen rightly go forth from home to the homeless,
so that in that very life
of himself
he fully understood it,
realized it
and abode therein,
and knew:
"Destroyed is rebirth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions there is no hereafter."
And the venerable Surādha was yet another of the Arahants.
[1] In Thag. Comy. (Pss. of the Brethren, p 116) a thera Surāda is the younger brother of a thera Rādha.
[2] Vidhā-samatikkantaṃ. The three forms of false opinion arising from māno have been referred to above, § 49 (Soṇa).
