Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṃyutta
4. Sukh'Indriya (or Uppaṭi) Vagga

The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
4. The Faculty of Ease

Sutta 34

Paṭhama Sammaṇa-Brāhmaṇa Suttaṃ

Recluses and Brahmins (a)

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[183]

[1] THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, there are these five controlling faculties.

What five?

The controlling faculty of ease,
the controlling faculty of discomfort,
the controlling faculty of happiness,
the controlling faculty of unhappiness,
the controlling faculty of indifference.

These are the five controlling faculties.

 

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[184] Monks, whatsoever recluses or brahmins understand not,
as they really are,
the arising
and the perishing of,
the satisfaction in,
the misery of,
and the escape from
these five controlling faculties,
such are not worthy to be accounted
as recluses among recluses
nor as brahmins among brahmins,
nor have those worthies of themselves understood,
or even in this life realized,
the goal of recluseship
or of brahminhood,
nor do they dwell in the attainment of it.

But, monks, those recluses and brahmins who do understand,
as they really are,
the arising
and the perishing of,
the satisfaction in,
the misery of,
and the escape from
these five controlling faculties,
such are worthy to be accounted
as recluses among recluses
and as brahmins among brahmins,
and those worthies have of themselves understood,
even in this life realized,
the goal of recluseship
and brahminhood,
and they do dwell in the attainment of it."