Dighanikaya 13.552

13.552

Idha kho panāti idha brahmalokamagge. Āsīditvāti amaggameva ‘‘maggo’’ti upagantvā. Saṃsīdantīti ‘‘samatala’’nti saññāya paṅkaṃ otiṇṇā viya anuppavisanti. Saṃsīditvā visāraṃ pāpuṇantīti evaṃ paṅke viya saṃsīditvā visāraṃ aṅgamaṅgasaṃbhañjanaṃ pāpuṇanti. Sukkhataraṃ maññe tarantīti marīcikāya vañcetvā ‘‘kākapeyyā nadī’’ti saññāya ‘‘tarissāmā’’ti hatthehi ca pādehi ca vāyamamānā sukkhataraṇaṃ maññe taranti. Tasmā yathā hatthapādādīnaṃ saṃbhañjanaṃ paribhañjanaṃ, evaṃ apāyesu saṃbhañjanaṃ paribhañjanaṃ pāpuṇanti. Idheva ca sukhaṃ vā sātaṃ vā na labhanti. Tasmā idaṃ tevijjānaṃ brāhmaṇānanti tasmā idaṃ brahmasahabyatāya maggadīpakaṃ tevijjakaṃ pāvacanaṃ tevijjānaṃ brāhmaṇānaṃ. Tevijjāiriṇanti tevijjāaraññaṃ iriṇanti hi agāmakaṃ mahāaraññaṃ vuccati. Tevijjāvivananti pupphaphalehi aparibhogarukkhehi sañchannaṃ nirudakaṃ araññaṃ. Yattha maggato ukkamitvā parivattitumpi na sakkā honti, taṃ sandhāyāha ‘‘tevijjāvivanantipi vuccatī’’ti. Tevijjābyasananti tevijjānaṃ pañcavidhabyasanasadisametaṃ. Yathā hi ñātirogabhoga diṭṭhi sīlabyasanappattassa sukhaṃ nāma natthi, evaṃ tevijjānaṃ tevijjakaṃ pāvacanaṃ āgamma sukhaṃ nāma natthīti dasseti.

"Here, indeed" (idha kho pana) means here on the path to the Brahma world. "Having run aground" (āsīditvā) means having approached what is not the path, thinking 'this is the path.' "They sink down" (saṃsīdanti) means they enter in like those who have stepped into the mud perceiving it to be 'level ground.' "Having sunk down, they meet with disaster" (saṃsīditvā visāraṃ pāpuṇanti) means: having thus sunk down as if in mud, they meet with disaster, the shattering of limb by limb. "They think they cross drier ground" (sukkhataraṃ maññe taranti) means: deceived by a mirage, perceiving it to be a 'crow-drinkable river,' striving with hands and feet, thinking 'we will cross,' they cross what they imagine to be a drier crossing. Therefore, just as there is the breaking and shattering of hands, feet, and so forth, so they meet with breaking and shattering in the states of deprivation. And in this very life they do not obtain happiness or pleasure. "Therefore this of the brahmins versed in the three Vedas" (tasmā idaṃ tevijjānaṃ brāhmaṇānaṃ) means: therefore this proclamation of the three Vedas, which professes to show the path to companionship with Brahmā, belongs to the brahmins versed in the three Vedas. "A threefold-Vedic desert" (tevijjāiriṇaṃ) means a threefold-Vedic wilderness; for a great wilderness without villages is called an 'iriṇa'. "A threefold-Vedic trackless waste" (tevijjāvivananti) means a waterless wilderness covered with trees whose flowers and fruits are useless. Referring to that place where, having departed from the path, one is not even able to turn back, it is said: "It is also called a threefold-Vedic trackless waste." "A threefold-Vedic ruin" (tevijjābyasanaṃ) means this is like the fivefold ruin of those versed in the three Vedas. For just as there is no happiness for one who has met with the ruin of relatives, disease, wealth, view, or morality, so it shows that there is no happiness for those versed in the three Vedas through relying on the proclamation of the three Vedas.