Saɱyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saɱyutta
3. Bhāra Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of the Aggregates Khandha-Vagga
22. Connected Discourses on the Aggregates
III. The Burden
Sutta 26
Dutiya Assāda Suttaɱ
Gratification 2
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Bhikkhus, I set out seeking the gratification in form.
Whatever gratification there is in form — that I discovered.
I have clearly seen with wisdom just how far the gratification in form extends.
"Bhikkhus, I set out seeking the danger in form.
Whatever danger there is in form — that I discovered.
I have clearly seen with wisdom just how far the danger in form extends.
"Bhikkhus, I set out seeking the escape from form.
Whatever escape there is from form — that I discovered.
I have clearly seen with wisdom just how far the escape from form extends.
"Bhikkhus, I set out seeking the gratification in ... the danger in ... the escape from feeling ... from perception ... from volitional formations ... from consciousness.
Whatever escape there is from consciousness — that I discovered.
I have clearly seen with wisdom just how far the escape from consciousness extends.
"So long, bhikkhus, as I did not directly know as they really are the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these five aggregates subject to clinging, I did not claim to have awakened to the unsurpassed perfect enlightenment in this world with its devas, Māra, and Brahmā, in this generation with its ascetics and brahmins, its devas and humans.
But when I directly knew all this as it really is, then I claimed to have awakened to the unsurpassed perfect enlightenment in this world with ... its devas and humans.
"The knowledge and vision arose in me:
'Unshakable is my liberation of mind; this is my last birth; now there is no more renewed existence."
