Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35. Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta
§ III: Paññāsaka Tatiya
5. Nava-Purāṇa 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
5. The Chapter on 'New and Old'
Sutta 153
Indriya-Sampanna Suttaṃ
Faculty[1]
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Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1][than][bodh] Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī, at Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
Then a certain brother came to see the Exalted One
on coming to him greeted him courteously,
and after the exchange of greetings and compliments
sat down at one side.
Seated at one side he said to the Exalted One: -
"'Perfect in faculty!
Perfect in faculty!'[2] is the saying, lord.
How far, lord,
is one perfect in faculty?"
§
"If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the eye as faculty,
is repelled by the eye as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty.
■
If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the ear as faculty,
is repelled by the ear as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty.
■
If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the nose as faculty,
is repelled by the nose as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty.
■
If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the tongue as faculty,
is repelled by the tongue as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty.
■
If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the body as faculty,
is repelled by the body as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty.
■
If a brother, who dwells
observing the rise and fall
in the mind as faculty,
is repelled by the mind as faculty,
thus repelled
he lusts not for it.
Then the knowledge arises in him:
'Freed am I by freedom,'
so that he realizes:
'Rooted out is birth,
lived is the righteous life,
done is the task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'
Thus far a brother is perfect in faculty."
[1] For indriya (as power or controlling principle) see Compendium, Appendix.
[2] Indriya-sampanno ( = paripaññindriya. Comy.).
