Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ III: Paññāsaka Tatiya
4. Devadaha 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
§ III: The 'Third Fifty' Suttas
4. The Chapter on Devadaha
Sutta 142
Paṭhama Bāhira-Anicca aka Hetunā Bāhira Suttaṃ
The External, by Way of Condition (i)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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Once the Exalted One was staying among the Sakkas at Devadaha,
a township of the Sakkas.
Then the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spake:
"Objects, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of objects,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
objects have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could objects be permanent?|| ||
■
"Sounds, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of sounds,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
sounds have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could sounds be permanent?|| ||
■
"Scents, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of scents,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
scents have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could scents be permanent?|| ||
■
"Savours, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of savours,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
savours have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could savours be permanent?|| ||
■
"Tangibles, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of tangibles,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
tangibles have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could tanglbles be permanent?|| ||
■
"Mind-states, Brethren, are impermanent.
Whatever condition,
whatever cause there be
for the appearance of mind-states,
that also is impermanent.
Owing to impermanence
mind-states have come into being, brethren.|| ||
How could mind-states be permanent?|| ||
§
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the eye,
is repelled by objects,
is repelled by eye-consciousness,
is repelled by eye-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to eye-contact.
■
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the ear,
is repelled by sounds,
is repelled by ear-consciousness,
is repelled by ear-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to ear-contact.
■
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the nose,
is repelled by scents,
is repelled by nose-consciousness,
is repelled by nose-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to nose-contact.
■
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the tongue,
is repelled by savours,
is repelled by tongue-consciousness,
is repelled by tongue-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to tongue-contact.
■
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the body,
is repelled by things tactile,
is repelled by body-consciousness,
is repelled by body-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to body-contact.
■
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by the mind,
is repelled by mind-states,
is repelled by mind-consciousness,
is repelled by mind-contact,
is repelled by that weal or woe or neutral state experienced,
which arises owing to mind-contact.
■
Being repelled by these,
he lusts not for them.
Not lusting he is set free.
In this freedom
comes insight
that it is a being free.
Thus he realizes:
'Rebirth is destroyed,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task.
For life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'"
