Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ II: Paññāsaka Dutiya
2. Migajāla Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
4. The Book Called the Saḷāyatana-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
35. Kindred Sayings the Sixfold Sphere of Sense
§ II: The 'Second Fifty' Suttas
2. The Chapter on Migajāla
Sutta 66
Samiddhi-Satta-Pañha Suttaṃ
Samiddhi (ii)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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Once the Exalted One was staying near Rājagaha,
in Bamboo Grove,
at the Squirrels' Feeding-ground.
Then the venerable Samiddhi came to the Exalted One and thus addressed him: -
"'A being! A being!'
is the saying, lord.
Pray, lord, to what extent is there a being,
or the symptoms of a being?"
"Where there is eye, Samiddhi,
objects,
eye-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the eye,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is ear, Samiddhi,
sounds,
ear-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the ear,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is nose, Samiddhi,
scents,
nose-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the nose,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is tongue, Samiddhi,
savours,
tongue-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the tongue,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is body, Samiddhi,
tangibles,
body-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the body,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is mind, Samiddhi,
mind-states,
mind-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the mind,
there is a being
or symptoms of a being.
§
"But where there is no eye, Samiddhi,
no objects,
no eye-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the eye,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is no ear, Samiddhi,
no sounds,
no ear-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the ear,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is no nose, Samiddhi,
no scents,
no nose-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the nose,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is no tongue, Samiddhi,
no savours,
no tongue-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the tongue,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is no body, Samiddhi,
no tangibles,
no body-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the body,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being.
Where there is no mind, Samiddhi,
no mind-states,
no mind-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the mind,
there is no being
or symptoms of a being."
