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 24
Ek-ā-bhiñña (or Eka-Bījī) Suttaṃ
One-Seed-er[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 five controlling powers.
What five?
The controlling power of faith,
the controlling power of energy,
the controlling power of mindfulness,
the controlling power of concentration,
the controlling power of insight.
These, monks, are the five controlling powers.
§
By the full and perfect completion
of these five controlling powers,
one is Arahant.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
one attains release midway.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
one attains release by a reduction of his time
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he attains release without much trouble
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he does so with some trouble.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is 'one who goes up stream,'
and goes to the Pure Abodes.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is a once-returner.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is a one-seed-er.
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is reborn in a good family.[2]
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is one destined to seven more births at most.[3]
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
is a Norm-follower:
By having these five controlling powers in a less degree,
he is 'one who walks by faith.'
[1] Eka-bījī (i.e, one more life). Text gives an alternative title (not in the uddāna), [Ed.: it is in the uddāna of the 2008 edition.] viz., ekābhiññam, [Ed.: 'one-knowing'] which is of doubtful authority. Cf. Pts. of Contr. 77 nn., 269, and PuggA. (J.P.T.S., 1914, p. 195). Our Comy. 'Being a stream-winner, he generates just one personality (attabhāvaṇ or mānusakaṇ), and becomes Arahant'; and refers to PuggA., i.e. (by wearing down three fetters, he is stream-winner, no more for Purgatory).
[2] Kolankolo (lit. 'from clan to clan,' kula). Cf. PuggA. ad loc. (mahābhoga-kulesu-nibbattati). Comy. So dve vā tīni vā kulāni sandahitvā saṇsaritvā dukkhass'antaṇ karoti: (kulāni-bhavā, v.l. bhagavā).
[3] Satta-kkhattu-paramo. Cf. K.S. ii, 95 A. 1, 233 ff. Comy. instances Anāthapiṇḍika, Visākha; Culavatha, Mahāratha, Anekavañña, Nāgadatta (these four last are devaputtā) and Sakka devarājā, who after six births in the deva (rūpa) world, will, on the seventh occasion, be reborn in the Pure Abodes.
