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 19
Ariya Suttaɱ
Ariyan
Translated by F. L. Woodward
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Once the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One said:
"These seven limbs of wisdom, monks,
if cultivated and made much of,
are the Ariyan profitable things.[1]
For him that acts in accordance therewith
they conduce to the utter destruction of ill.
What seven?
The limb of wisdom that is mindfulness,
the limb of wisdom that is Norm investigation,
the limb of wisdom that is energy,
the limb of wisdom that is zest,
the limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
the limb of wisdom that is concentration,
the limb of wisdom that is equinimity.
These seven limbs of wisdom, monks,
if cultivated and made much of,
are the Ariyan profitable things.
For him that acts in accordance therewith
they conduce to the utter destruction of ill."
[1] Niyyānikā (leading to salvation); cf. infra, text 255 (of the Four Bases of Psychic Poweɱ.
