SN48:35 Ascetics and Brahmins (2)
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1"Bhikkhus, there are these five faculties. What five?
The pleasure faculty, the pain faculty, the joy faculty, the displeasure faculty, the equanimity faculty.[n.210] The distinctions among these faculties will be explained just below at SN48.36. Spk: It is pleasure and a faculty in the sense of controlling or dominating the conascent states: thus the "pleasure faculty," etc. Here, the pleasure, pain, and displeasure faculties are of the sense sphere only; the joy faculty is of three planes, excluding the formless sphere; the equanimity faculty is of four planes.
The allocation by way of planes is made on the basis of the Abhidhamma system, according to which physical pleasure and pain occur only in body-consciousness, a sense-sphere citta; displeasure, only in the cittas accompanied by aversion, likewise sense-sphere cittas; joy, in sense-sphere cittas, cittas of the lower three jhānas, and certain supramundane cittas; equanimity, in sense-sphere cittas, the fourth-jhāna citta of the form sphere, all formless-sphere cittas, and certain supramundane cittas. See CMA 3:2–4.
"Those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, who do not understand the pleasure faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation;
who do not understand the joy faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation;
who do not understand the pain faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation;
who do not understand the displeasure faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation;
who do not understand the equanimity faculty, its origin, its cessation, sn.v.209 and the way leading to its cessation:
these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics or brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones do not, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood.
2"But, bhikkhus, those ascetics and brahmins who understand these things: these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."
1"Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, indriyāni. Katamāni pañca? Sukhindriyaṁ, dukkhindriyaṁ, somanassindriyaṁ, domanassindriyaṁ, upekkhindriyaṁ.
Ye hi keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā sukhindriyaṁ nappajānanti, sukhindriyasamudayaṁ nappajānanti, sukhindriyanirodhaṁ nappajānanti, sukhindriyanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadāṁ nappajānanti;
dukkhindriyaṁ nappajānanti … pe …
somanassindriyaṁ nappajānanti … pe …
domanassindriyaṁ nappajānanti … pe …
upekkhindriyaṁ nappajānanti, upekkhindriyasamudayaṁ nappajānanti, upekkhindriyanirodhaṁ nappajānanti, upekkhindriyanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadāṁ nappajānanti;
na me te, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu vā samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu vā brāhmaṇasammatā, na ca panete āyasmanto sāmaññatthaṁ vā brahmaññatthaṁ vā diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāranti.
2Ye ca kho keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā sukhindriyaṁ pajānanti, sukhindriyasamudayaṁ pajānanti, sukhindriyanirodhaṁ pajānanti, sukhindriyanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadāṁ pajānanti; dukkhindriyaṁ pajānanti … pe … somanassindriyaṁ pajānanti … pe … domanassindriyaṁ pajānanti … pe … upekkhindriyaṁ pajānanti, upekkhindriyasamudayaṁ pajānanti, upekkhindriyanirodhaṁ pajānanti, upekkhindriyanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadāṁ pajānanti, te ca kho me, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu ceva samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu ca brāhmaṇasammatā, te ca panāyasmanto sāmaññatthañca brahmaññatthañca diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihārantī"ti.
Pañcamaṁ.
