Brahmajalasutta 2.17
Brahmajālasutta 2.17
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- Pāli
2.17.1
Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte antasaññī lokasmiṃ viharati.
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 meditate perceiving the cosmos as finite.
2.17.2
So evamāha:
They say:
2.17.3
‘antavā ayaṃ loko parivaṭumo.
‘The cosmos is finite and restricted.
2.17.4
Taṃ kissa hetu?
Why is that?
2.17.5
Ahañhi ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusāmi, yathāsamāhite citte antasaññī lokasmiṃ viharāmi.
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 meditate perceiving the cosmos as finite.
2.17.6
Imināmahaṃ etaṃ jānāmi:
Because of this I know:
2.17.7
“yathā antavā ayaṃ loko parivaṭumo”’ti.
“The cosmos is finite and restricted.”’
2.17.8
Idaṃ, bhikkhave, paṭhamaṃ ṭhānaṃ, yaṃ āgamma yaṃ ārabbha eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā antānantikā antānantaṃ lokassa paññapenti.
This is the first ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the cosmos is finite or infinite.
Translations (5)
- Наставление о величайшей сети — Russian
- Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta — sr
- Das göttliche Netz — German
- The Divine Net — English
- Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) — English
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli