[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [The Pāli Canon](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada) › [Basket of Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp) › [Dīghanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha) › [Brahmajalasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1) › 1.31 # Brahmajalasutta 1.31 Brahmajālasutta 1.31 - **Language:** Pāli ### [1.31.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.1) Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte (…) anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. > It’s when some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their many kinds of past lives. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.2) Seyyathidaṃ—ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo jātisatampi jātisahassampi jātisatasahassampi anekānipi jātisatāni anekānipi jātisahassāni anekānipi jātisatasahassāni: ‘amutrāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto amutra udapādiṃ; tatrāpāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto idhūpapanno’ti. Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. > That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths. They remember: ‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.3) So evamāha: > They say: > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.4) ‘sassato attā ca loko ca vañjho kūṭaṭṭho esikaṭṭhāyiṭṭhito; > ‘The self and the cosmos are eternal, barren, steady as a mountain peak, standing firm like a pillar. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.5) te ca sattā sandhāvanti saṃsaranti cavanti upapajjanti, atthi tveva sassatisamaṃ. > They remain the same for all eternity, while these sentient beings wander and transmigrate and pass away and rearise. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.6) Taṃ kissa hetu? > Why is that? > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.7) Ahañhi ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusāmi, yathāsamāhite citte anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarāmi. > Because by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind I experience an immersion of the heart of such a kind that I recollect my many kinds of past lives, > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.8) Seyyathidaṃ—ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo jātisatampi jātisahassampi jātisatasahassampi anekānipi jātisatāni anekānipi jātisahassāni anekānipi jātisatasahassāni: “amutrāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto amutra udapādiṃ; tatrāpāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto idhūpapanno”ti. Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarāmi. > with features and details. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.9) Imināmahaṃ etaṃ jānāmi: > Because of this I know: > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.10) “yathā sassato attā ca loko ca vañjho kūṭaṭṭho esikaṭṭhāyiṭṭhito; > “The self and the cosmos are eternal, barren, steady as a mountain peak, standing firm like a pillar. > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.11) te ca sattā sandhāvanti saṃsaranti cavanti upapajjanti, atthi tveva sassatisaman”’ti. > They remain the same for all eternity, while these sentient beings wander and transmigrate and pass away and rearise.”’ > — The Divine Net ### [1.31.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31.12) Idaṃ, bhikkhave, paṭhamaṃ ṭhānaṃ, yaṃ āgamma yaṃ ārabbha eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā sassatavādā sassataṃ attānañca lokañca paññapenti. > This is the first ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the self and the cosmos are eternal. > — The Divine Net ## Translations (5) - [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.1.31.1) — Russian - [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.1.31.1) — sr - [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.1.31.1) — German - [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.1.31.1) — English - [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.1.31) — English ## Commentaries (1) - [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.1.31) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Linked texts (3) - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.17) — Classical Chinese - [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.33) — Classical Chinese - [Sampasādanīyasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.15.1) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.31) · Pramāṇa