Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
8. Khajjaniya 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
8. On what Must be Devoured
Sutta 77
Dutiya Arahanta Suttaṃ
Arahants (2)
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 Exalted One said:
"Body, brethren, is impermanent.
What is impermanent,
that is suffering.
What is suffering,
that is not the Self.
What is not the Self,
'That is not mine,
that am not I,
that is not the Self of me.'
This is the way one should regard things
as they really are,
by right insight.
■
Feeling, brethren, is impermanent.
What is impermanent,
that is suffering.
What is suffering,
that is not the Self.
What is not the Self,
'That is not mine,
that am not I,
that is not the Self of me.'
This is the way one should regard things
as they really are,
by right insight.
■
Perception, brethren, is impermanent.
What is impermanent,
that is suffering.
What is suffering,
that is not the Self.
What is not the Self,
'That is not mine,
that am not I,
that is not the Self of me.'
This is the way one should regard things
as they really are,
by right insight.
■
The activities, brethren, are impermanent.
What is impermanent,
that is suffering.
What is suffering,
that is not the Self.
What is not the Self,
'That is not mine,
that am not I,
that is not the Self of me.'
This is the way one should regard things
as they really are,
by right insight.
■
Consciousness, brethren, is impermanent.
What is impermanent,
that is suffering.
What is suffering,
that is not the Self.
What is not the Self,
'That is not mine,
that am not I,
that is not the Self of me.'
This is the way one should regard things
as they really are,
by right insight.
§
So seeing, brethren,
the well-taught Ariyan disciple
feels disgust at body,
feels disgust at feeling,
feels disgust at perception,
feels disgust at activities
feels disgust at consciousness.
Feeling disgust
he is repelled:
by repulsion he is released;
by that release
set free,
knowledge arises:
'In the freed man
is the free thing'
and he knows:
'Destroyed is rebirth;
lived is the righteous life;
done is the task;
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
§
Throughout the seven abodes, brethren,
up to the highest becoming,
these are the topmost,
these are the best in all the world, -
these Arahants."
Thus spake the Exalted One.
