Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṃyutta
3. Chaḷ-Indriya Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
3. The Six Faculties
Sutta 23
Ñāya (Aññ'Indriya) Suttaṃ
The Method[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1] THUS have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.
Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these three controlling faculties.
What three?
The consciousness that
'I shall know the unknown;'
the consciousness of gnosis;
the consciousness of one who has the gnosis.[2]
These are the three faculties."
[1] Ñāya. Cf. Buddh. Psych. 121; D. iii, 219.
[2] Buddh. Psych. Eth. 86; V.M. 491; Asḷ. 291; B. 'The faculty of the aññātāvin (the holder of things known), of him who, in the philosophy of the Four Truths, has completed what was to be done.'
