Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
39. Sāmaṇḍaka Saṃyutta

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
39. Kindred Sayings about Sāmaṇḍaka

Sutta 2

Arahatta Suttaṃ

Arahantship

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[1] Thus have I heard:

Once the venerable Sāriputta was staying among the Vajjī,
at Ukkāvelā
on the banks of the river Ganges.

Then Sāmaṇḍaka, the Wanderer, came to visit the venerable Sāriputta,
and on coming to him
greeted him in friendly wise,
and after the exchange of greetings and courtesies
sat down at one side.

So seated, the Wanderer Sāmaṇḍaka said this to the venerable Sāriputta: -

"They say, 'Arahantship, Arahantship' friend Sāriputta.

Pray, friend, what is Arahantship?

"The destruction of lust, friend,
the destruction of hatred,
the destruction of illusion, -
that is called Arahantship."

"But is there, friend, any path,
any approach
to the realization of this Arahantship?

"There is such a path, friend,
there is such an approach."

"And what is that path, friend,
what is that approach
to the realization of this Arahantship?"

"It is this Ariyan Eightfold Path, friend,
for the realization of Arahantship,
to wit:

Right view,
right aim,
right speech,
right action,
right living,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration.

Such, friend, is this path,
this approach
to the realization of Arahantship."

"A goodly path, friend,
a goodly approach
to the realization of this Arahantship
and a proper occasion for earnestness too, friend!"