Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
36. Vedanā Saṃyutta
2. Raho-Gata Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
4. The Book Called the Saḷāyatana-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
36. Kindred Sayings about Feeling
2. The Chapter on Solitude
Sutta 14
Āgāra Suttaṃ
The Guest-House[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1][bodh][nypo] Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One once addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spake:
"Suppose, Brethren, a guest-house.
Thither come from the eastern quarter folk who take up their residence therein,
from the western quarter folk who take up their residence therein,
from the northern quarter folk who take up their residence therein,
from the southern quarter folk who take up their residence therein,
noblemen take up their residence therein,
brahmins take up their residence therein,
commoners take up their residence therein,
serfs take up their residence therein.[2]
Even so, Brethren, in this body divers feelings arise,
feelings pleasant,
feelings painful,
feelings neutral.
Pleasant feelings arise that are carnal.[3]
Painful feelings arise that are carnal.
Neutral feelings arise that are carnal.
Likewise arise feelings pleasant
that are free from a carnal taint,
feelings painful
that are free from a carnal taint,
feelings neutral
that are free from a carnal taint.
[1] Āgantuk'āgāra. Cf. S. v. 51.
[2] Vessā and suddā.
Sāmisa. 'with a fleshy bait' is not literal. Literal is 'with-meat' where meat means 'raw-meat'; but the word is, at least here, a pun: on 'to-couple' ā + missa. 'Carnal' is a good translation, as it carries both meanings in English, with Nirāmisa being 'Non-carnal' rather than 'free from carnal taint'.
— p.p.
[3] Sāmisa, lit. 'with a fleshy bait.' Kāma-aissitā, 'such as may arise in the first trance. The mental feelings are experienced in the fourth trance.' Comy Cf. M. iii, 217-19; M.A. 279; VibhA. 268.
