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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

5: The Book of the Fives

III. With Five Factors — AN 5.27: Immersion

1“Mendicants, develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful. When you develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful, five knowledges arise for you personally. What five?

‘This immersion is blissful now, and results in bliss in the future.’ …

‘This immersion is noble and spiritual.’ …

‘This immersion is not cultivated by sinners.’ …

‘This immersion is peaceful and sublime and tranquil and unified, not held in place by forceful suppression.’ …

‘I mindfully enter into and emerge from this immersion.’ …

2Develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful. When you develop limitless immersion, alert and mindful, these five knowledges arise for you personally.”

1"Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha appamāṇaṁ nipakā patissatā. Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvayataṁ appamāṇaṁ nipakānaṁ patissatānaṁ pañca ñāṇāni paccattaññeva uppajjanti. Katamāni pañca?

‘Ayaṁ samādhi paccuppannasukho ceva āyatiñca sukhavipāko’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘Ayaṁ samādhi ariyo nirāmiso’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘Ayaṁ samādhi akāpurisasevito’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘Ayaṁ samādhi santo paṇīto paṭippassaddhaladdho ekodibhāvādhigato, na sasaṅkhāraniggayhavāritagato’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati,

‘sato kho panāhaṁ imaṁ samāpajjāmi sato vuṭṭhahāmī’ti paccattaññeva ñāṇaṁ uppajjati.

2Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvetha appamāṇaṁ nipakā patissatā. Samādhiṁ, bhikkhave, bhāvayataṁ appamāṇaṁ nipakānaṁ patissatānaṁ imāni pañca ñāṇāni paccattaññeva uppajjantī"ti.

Sattamaṁ.