Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
25. Okkantika Saṃyutta
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
25. Kindred Sayings on Entering
Sutta 9
Dhātu Suttaṃ
Element[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:
"The element of earth, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
The element of water, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
The element of heat, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
The element of air, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
The element of space, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
The element of consciousness, brethren, is impermanent,
changeable,
becoming otherwise.
§
He who has faith and confidence, brethren,
in these doctrines,
such an one is called
'Walker in faith,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruita of stream-winning.'
■
He, brethren, by whom these doctrines
by his insight
are moderately approved,
is called
'Walker in Dhamma,
one who enters on assurance of perfection,
one who enters on the state of the worthy,
one who has escaped the state of the manyfolk;
one incapable of doing a deed
by which he would be reborn in purgatory
or in the womb of an animal,
or in the realm of Petas;
one incapable of dying without realizing
the fruita of stream-winning.'
■
He, brethren, who thus knows,
thus sees
these doctrines,
is called
'Stream-winner,
saved from destruction,
assured,
bound for enlightenment.'"
[1] Of earth, water, fire, air and space (ākāsa) Text omits viññāṇa-dhātu, but it occurs in the formula at D. iii, 247, at M. iii, 31, 62, 240, and infra, §9 of Book. V. and V.M. 486.
