Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
46. Bojjhanga Saṃyutta
2. Gilāna Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
46. Kindred Sayings on the Limbs of Wisdom
2. The Sick Man
Sutta 15
Dutiya Gilanā Suttaṃ
Sick (b)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
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Once the Exalted One was staying near Rājagaha
in Bamboo Grove
at the Squirrels' Feeding-ground.
Now on that occasion
the venerable Moggallāna the Great
was staying on the hill Vulture's Peak,
and was sick,
afflicted,
stricken with a sore disease.
Then the Exalted One,
rising from his solitude at eventide,
went to visit the venerable Moggallāna the Great,
and on coming to him
sat down on a seat made ready.
So the Exalted One as he sat
said to the venerable Moggallāna the Great:
"Well, Moggallāna, I hope you are bearing up.
I hope you are enduring.
Do your pains abate
and not increase?
Are there signs of their abating
and not increasing?"
"No, lord.
I am not bearing up.
I am not enduring.
Strong pains come upon me.
There is no sign of their abating,
but of their increasing."
Moggallāna, these seven limbs of wisdom
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
What seven?
The limb of wisdom, Moggallāna, that is mindfulness,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is investigation of the Norm,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is energy,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is concentration,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is equanimity,
fully expounded by myself,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
These seven limbs of wisdom, Moggallāna,
fully expounded by myself,
if cultivated,
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna."
"Verily, lord, they are limbs of wisdom!
Verily, O Happy One, they are limbs of wisdom!"
Thus spake the Exalted One,
and the venerable Moggallāna the Great was delighted thereat,
and took pleasure in what was said by the Exalted One.
And the venerable Moggallāna the Great
rose up from that sickness.
There and then that sickness of the venerable Moggallāna the Great
was abandoned.
