Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṃyutta
7. Bodhi-Pakkhiya Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
7. On the Side of the Wisdom
Sutta 66
Satt'Ānisaṃsā Suttaṃ
Seven Advantages
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[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 faith,
the controlling faculty of energy,
the controlling faculty of mindfulness,
the controlling faculty of concentration,
the controlling faculty of insight.
These are the five controlling faculties.
By the act of cultivating and making much
of these five controlling faculties,
seven fruits,
seven advantages[1] are to be looked for.
What are the seven?
1. In this very life,
beforehand,[2]
one establishes realization.
2. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
at any rate one does so at the moment of death.
3. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
or at the moment of death,
at any rate, by wearing down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
he is one who wins release midway.
4. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
or at the moment of death,
or by wearing down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
winning release midway,
yet by reduction of his time[3]
one wins release.
5. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
or at the moment of death,
or by wearing down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
winning release midway,
or by reduction of his time
winning release,
he wins release without much trouble.
6. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
or at the moment of death,
or by wearing down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
winning release midway,
or by reduction of his time
winning release,
or by winning release without much trouble
he wins release with some trouble.
7. If not in this very life,
beforehand,
or at the moment of death,
or by wearing down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
winning release midway,
or by reduction of his time
winning release,
or by winning release without much trouble
or by winning release with some trouble
still by having worn down the five fetters
that bind to the lower world,
he is 'one who goes up stream'
and he goes to the Pure Abodes.
Monks, it is by the act of cultivating
and making much of
these five controlling faculties
that these seven fruits,
these seven advantages
are to be looked for."
[1] As at text, 69; at D. ii, 86, there axe five.
[2] Text paṭihacca (warding off). See n. to p. 69. Comy. reads paṭigacca (paṭikacca), 'before his time of death.' Cf. Dialog. iii, 227.
[3] Ūpahacca.
