Brahmajalasutta 2.31
Brahmajālasutta 2.31
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- Pāli
2.31.1
Santi, bhikkhave, asaññasattā nāma devā.
There are gods named ‘non-percipient beings’.
2.31.2
Saññuppādā ca pana te devā tamhā kāyā cavanti.
When perception arises they pass away from that host of gods.
2.31.3
Ṭhānaṃ kho panetaṃ, bhikkhave, vijjati, yaṃ aññataro satto tamhā kāyā cavitvā itthattaṃ āgacchati.
It’s possible that one of those beings passes away from that host and is reborn in this place.
2.31.4
Itthattaṃ āgato samāno agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajati.
Having done so, they go forth from the lay life to homelessness.
2.31.5
Agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajito samāno ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte saññuppādaṃ anussarati, tato paraṃ nānussarati.
By dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind, they experience an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect the arising of perception, but no further.
2.31.6
So evamāha:
They say:
2.31.7
‘adhiccasamuppanno attā ca loko ca.
‘The self and the cosmos arose anomalously.
2.31.8
Taṃ kissa hetu?
Why is that?
2.31.9
Ahañhi pubbe nāhosiṃ, somhi etarahi ahutvā santatāya pariṇato’ti.
Because formerly I didn’t exist, whereas now, having not existed, I’ve transformed into the state of existing.’
2.31.10
Idaṃ, bhikkhave, paṭhamaṃ ṭhānaṃ, yaṃ āgamma yaṃ ārabbha eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā adhiccasamuppannikā adhiccasamuppannaṃ attānañca lokañca paññapenti.
This is the first ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the self and the cosmos arose anomalously.
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
Linked texts (4)
- 長阿含經 — Classical Chinese
- Pāthikasutta — Pāli
- Udāna — Pāli
- Kathāvatthu — Moggaliputta Tissa, Pāli