Saɱyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
46. Bojjhanga Saɱyutta
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 16
Tatiya Gilanā Suttaɱ
Sick (c)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
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[1][bodh][piya] THUS have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was staying near Rājagaha
in Bamboo Grove
at the Squirrels' Feeding-ground.
Now on that occasion
the Exalted One
and was sick,
afflicted,
stricken with a sore disease.
Cunda the Great[1]
came to visit the Exalted One,
and on coming to him
saluted him
and sat down at one side.
As he thus sat
the Exalted One said to the venerable Cunda the Great:
"Cunda, call to mind[2] the limbs of wisdom."
"These seven limbs of wisdom, lord,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
if cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
What are the seven?
The limb of wisdom, lord, that is mindfulness,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
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 the Exalted One,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is energy,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is concentration,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
The limb of wisdom that is equanimity,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
when cultivated
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna.
These seven limbs of wisdom, lord,
fully expounded by the Exalted One,
if cultivated,
and made much of,
conduce to full comprehension,
to wisdom,
to Nibbāna."
"Verily, Cunda, they are limbs of wisdom!
Verily, Cunda, they are limbs of wisdom!"
Thus spake Cunda the Great,
and the Master was
approving of it.
Then the Exalted One rose up from that sickness.
There and then that sickness of the Exalted One was abandoned.
[1] Younger brother of Sāriputta, and one of the chief Elders. Cf. Brethren, 119; K.S. iv, 30.
[2] Paṭibhantu taṅ, lit. 'let them occur to you' (cf. vol., i., 241, 243, 245; Ud., p 39: paṭibhati maṅ = upaṭṭhāti maṅ. Comy.).
