Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
51. Iddhi-Pāda Saṃyutta
1. Cāpāla Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
51. Kindred Sayings on the Bases of Psychic Power
1. Cāpāla
Sutta 8
Buddha or Arahanta Suttaṃ
Enlightened or Arahant
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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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 four bases of psychic power.
Of what four?
Herein a monk cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
desire,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
energy,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
thought,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
investigation,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.
These indeed, monks, are the four bases of psychic power.
It is by the fact of cultivating and making much of
these four bases of psychic power, monks,
that the Tathāgata is called Arahant,
a Fully Enlightened One.'[1]
[1] Cf. Dialog. iii, 210 n., etc.
