Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
9. Thera 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
9. The Elders
Sutta 92
Dutiya Rāhula Suttaṃ
Rāhula (2)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
Then the venerable Rāhula came to the Exalted One
and down at one side.
So seated,
the venerable Rāhula sajd to the Exalted One:
"How, lord, does one know,
how does one see,
so that in this material body,
together with its consciousness,
and likewise in all external objects,
his mind has gone away
from all notions of an 'I' and of 'mine,'
and from conceit,
passing beyond all ways of conceit,
and is peaceful and utterly released?
"Whatsoever material object, Rāhula,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
subtle or gross,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me,' -
by so seeing it,
even as it is
by right insight
one is relesed from grasping.
■
"Whatsoever feeling, Rāhula,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
subtle or gross,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me,' -
by so seeing it,
even as it is
by right insight
one is relesed from grasping.
■
"Whatsoever perception, Rāhula,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
subtle or gross,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me,' -
by so seeing it,
even as it is
by right insight
one is relesed from grasping.
■
"Whatsoever activities, Rāhula,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
subtle or gross,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me,' -
by so seeing it,
even as it is
by right insight
one is relesed from grasping.
■
"Whatsoever consciousness, Rāhula,
be it past,
future
or present,
inward or outward,
subtle or gross,
low or high,
far or near,
one regards thus:
'This is not mine;
this am not I;
this is not the Self of me,' -
by so seeing it,
even as it is
by right insight
one is relesed from grasping.
■
[116] Even so knowing, Rāhula,
so seeing,
in this material body
one's mind has gone away
from all notions of an 'I'
and of 'mine,'
and from conceit,
passing beyond all the ways of conceit,[1]
and is peaceful and utterly released."
[1] Cf. K.S. i, 17 n.
