Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
11. Anta Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
11. On Separates
Sutta 103
Antā Suttaṃ
The Separates[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren!"
"Master!" responded those brethren.
The Exalted One said:
"There are these four separates, brethren.
What four?
The person-pack,[2]
the arising of the person-pack,
the ceasing of the person-pack,
the way to the ceasing of the person-pack.
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And what, brethren, is the separate (called the) person-pack?
It is the five groups based on grasping.
What five?
The group based on body-grasping,
that based on feeling-grasping,
on perception-grasping,
on the activities-grasping,
on consciousness-grasping.
This, brethren, is called
the separate of the person-pack.
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And what, brethren, is the arising
of the separate (called the) person-pack?
Just that craving which,
accompanied by lure and lust,
leads down to rebirth,
to wit:
Feeling. Woodward is here translating 'kāma' (generally sense-pleasures) as feeling which has been to this point his translation of 'vedana' (sense-experience).
— p.p.
the craving for feeling,
the craving for rebirth,
the craving for no rebirth.
This, brethren, is called
the arising of the separate (called) person-pack.
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And what, brethren, is the ceasing
of the separate called the person-pack?
It is the utter passionless ceasing,
the giving up,
the abandonment of,
the release from,
the freedom from
attachment to,
that craving.
This, brethren, is called
the ceasing of the separate (called) person-pack.
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And what, brethren,
is the way going to
the ceasing of the person-pack?
It is this Ariyan Eightfold Path, to wit:
[135] Right view,
right aims,
right speech,
right action,
right living,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration.
This, brethren, is called
the way going to the ceasing of the separate (called) person-pack.
These, brethren are the Four Separates.
[1] Antā. Comy., 'koṭṭhāsā,' divisions: not 'extremes' here, as in the dveantā of K.S. ii, p. 13. Cf. Sum. Vilās, p. 103. Childers, 8. Sakkāyo suggests 'goals of doctrine.' The Sangīti S. (Dialogues iii, 210) has three 'limits,' omitting the fourth.
[2] Sak-kāya, i.e., the pack or group or cluster (kāya: derivation probably from ci, to heap up, Pāli Dict.) of one's self. Cf. nikāya, and other renderings supra, p. 86, etc. -[original] Ed.
