Dighanikaya 18.287

18.287

Yāvasupaññattā cime tena bhagavatāti tena mayhaṃ satthārā bhagavatā yāva supaññattā yāva sukathitā. Iddhipādāti ettha ijjhanaṭṭhena iddhi, patiṭṭhānaṭṭhena pādāti veditabbā. Iddhipahutāyāti iddhipahonakatāya. Iddhivisavitāyāti iddhivipajjanabhāvāya, punappunaṃ āsevanavasena ciṇṇavasitāyāti vuttaṃ hoti. Iddhivikubbanatāyāti iddhivikubbanabhāvāya, nānappakārato katvā dassanatthāya. Chandasamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgatantiādīsu chandahetuko chandādhiko vā samādhi chandasamādhi, kattukamyatāchandaṃ adhipatiṃ karitvā paṭiladdhasamādhissetaṃ adhivacanaṃ. Padhānabhūtā saṅkhārā padhānasaṅkhārā. Catukiccasādhakassa sammappadhānavīriyassetaṃ adhivacanaṃ. Samannāgatanti chandasamādhinā ca padhānasaṅkhārena ca upetaṃ. Iddhipādanti nipphattipariyāyena ijjhanaṭṭhena vā, ijjhanti etāya sattā iddhā vuddhā ukkaṃsagatā hontīti iminā vā pariyāyena iddhīti saṅkhyaṃ gatānaṃ abhiññācittasampayuttānaṃ chandasamādhipadhānasaṅkhārānaṃ adhiṭṭhānaṭṭhena pādabhūto sesacittacetasikarāsīti attho. Vuttañhetaṃ – ‘‘iddhipādoti tathābhūtassa vedanākkhandho, saññākkhandho, saṅkhārakkhandho viññāṇakkhandho’’ti (vibha. 434). Iminā nayena sesesupi attho veditabbo. Yatheva hi chandaṃ adhipatiṃ karitvā paṭiladdhasamādhi chandasamādhīti vutto, evaṃ vīriyaṃ, cittaṃ, vīmaṃsaṃ adhipatiṃ karitvā paṭiladdhasamādhi vīmaṃsāsamādhīti vuccati. Apica upacārajjhānaṃ pādo, paṭhamajjhānaṃ iddhi. Saupacāraṃ paṭhamajjhānaṃ pādo, dutiyajjhānaṃ iddhīti evaṃ pubbabhāge pādo, aparabhāge iddhīti evamettha attho veditabbo. Vitthārena iddhipādakathā visuddhimagge ca vibhaṅgaṭṭhakathāya ca vuttā.

“How well-declared are these by that Blessed One!”: how well-declared, how well-spoken by that Blessed One, my Teacher. “Bases of psychic power”: here, “psychic power” in the sense of succeeding; “bases” in the sense of being a foundation—thus it should be understood. “For the competence of psychic power”: for the capability of psychic power. “For the versatility of psychic power”: for the state of having command over psychic power; what is said is: for the state of being accustomed through repeated cultivation. “For the transformation of psychic power”: for the state of psychic transformation, for the sake of showing it by doing so in various ways. In “endowed with the volitional formations of striving and concentration of desire” and so forth: concentration caused by desire, or wherein desire is predominant, is concentration of desire; this is a designation for concentration obtained having made the desire-to-act predominant. Volitional formations that are strivings are volitional formations of striving; this is a designation for the energy of right striving which accomplishes the four tasks. “Endowed”: accompanied by concentration of desire and by volitional formations of striving. “Base of psychic power”: the remaining mass of consciousness and mental factors acting as a base in the sense of a foundation for the concentration of desire and volitional formations of striving that are associated with the consciousness of direct knowledge, which are reckoned as “psychic power” in the sense of accomplishment, or in the sense of succeeding, or by the figure: “by it beings succeed, become prosperous and attain excellence.” For this is said: “'Base of psychic power': the feeling aggregate, perception aggregate, volitional formations aggregate, and consciousness aggregate of one who is such” (Vibhaṅga 434). In this way the meaning should be understood in the remaining [cases] as well. For just as the concentration obtained having made desire predominant is called “concentration of desire,” so the concentration obtained having made energy, consciousness, or investigation predominant is called “[energy concentration, consciousness concentration, or] investigation concentration.” Moreover, access absorption is the base, the first absorption is the psychic power; the first absorption with access is the base, the second absorption is the psychic power—thus the earlier stage is the base, the later stage is the psychic power; thus should the meaning be understood here. The discussion on the bases of psychic power has been stated in detail in the Path of Purification and in the commentary on the Vibhaṅga.