Dighanikaya 18.287_2

18.287_2

Keci pana ‘‘nipphannā iddhi. Anipphanno iddhipādo’’ti vadanti, tesaṃ vādamaddanatthāya abhidhamme uttaracūḷikavāro nāma ābhato – ‘‘cattāro iddhipādā chandiddhipādo, vīriyiddhipādo, cittiddhipādo, vīmaṃsiddhipādo. Tattha katamo chandiddhipādo? Idha bhikkhu yasmiṃ samaye lokuttaraṃ jhānaṃ bhāveti niyyānikaṃ apacayagāmiṃ diṭṭhigatānaṃ pahānāya paṭhamāya bhūmiyā pattiyā vivicceva kāmehi paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati dukkhāpaṭipadaṃ dandhābhiññaṃ. Yo tasmiṃ samaye chando chandikatā kattukamyatā kusalo dhammacchando, ayaṃ vuccati chandiddhipādo, avasesā dhammā chandiddhipādasampayuttā’’ti (vibha. 458). Ime pana lokuttaravaseneva āgatā. Tattha raṭṭhapālatthero chandaṃ dhuraṃ katvā lokuttaraṃ dhammaṃ nibbattesi. Soṇatthero vīriyaṃ dhuraṃ katvā, sambhūtatthero cittaṃ dhuraṃ katvā, āyasmā mogharājā vīmaṃsaṃ dhuraṃ katvāti.

Some, however, say: “Psychic power is produced; the base of psychic power is unproduced.” To crush their doctrine, the section called the Uttaracūḷika was brought forth in the Abhidhamma: “There are four bases of psychic power: the base of psychic power of desire, the base of psychic power of energy, the base of psychic power of consciousness, the base of psychic power of investigation. Therein, what is the base of psychic power of desire? Here, a bhikkhu, at the time when he develops supramundane absorption, which leads out, which leads to diminution, for the abandoning of views, for the attainment of the first stage, secluded from sensual pleasures enters and abides in the first absorption, with painful progress and sluggish direct knowledge—whatever at that time is desire, state of desire, desire to act, wholesome desire for Dhamma: this is called the base of psychic power of desire; the remaining states are associated with the base of psychic power of desire” (Vibhaṅga 458). These, however, are presented strictly in a supramundane way. Therein, the Elder Raṭṭhapāla, having made desire his vanguard, produced the supramundane state. The Elder Soṇa, having made energy his vanguard; the Elder Sambhūta, having made consciousness his vanguard; the Venerable Mogharāja, having made investigation his vanguard.