[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) › 2.6.1-9 # Brahmajalasutta 2.6.1-9 Brahmajālasutta 2.6.1-9 - **Language:** Pāli ### [2.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.1) Tatra, bhikkhave, yo so satto paṭhamaṃ upapanno, so dīghāyukataro ca hoti vaṇṇavantataro ca mahesakkhataro ca. > And the being who was reborn first is more long-lived, beautiful, and illustrious than those who arrived later. > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.2) Ye pana te sattā pacchā upapannā, te appāyukatarā ca honti dubbaṇṇatarā ca appesakkhatarā ca. ### [2.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.3) 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. > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.4) Itthattaṃ āgato samāno agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajati. > Having done so, they go forth from the lay life to homelessness. > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.5) Agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajito samāno ātappamanvāya padhānamanvāya anuyogamanvāya appamādamanvāya sammāmanasikāramanvāya tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte taṃ pubbenivāsaṃ 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 that past life, but no further. > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.6) So evamāha: > They say: > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.7) ‘yo kho so bhavaṃ brahmā mahābrahmā abhibhū anabhibhūto aññadatthudaso vasavattī issaro kattā nimmātā seṭṭho sajitā vasī pitā bhūtabhabyānaṃ, yena mayaṃ bhotā brahmunā nimmitā, so nicco dhuvo sassato avipariṇāmadhammo sassatisamaṃ tatheva ṭhassati. > ‘He who is the Divinity—the Great Divinity, the Vanquisher, the Unvanquished, the Universal Seer, the Wielder of Power, God Almighty, the Maker, the Creator, the First, the Begetter, the Controller, the Father of those who have been born and those yet to be born—by he we were created. He is permanent, everlasting, eternal, imperishable, remaining the same for all eternity. > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.8) Ye pana mayaṃ ahumhā tena bhotā brahmunā nimmitā, te mayaṃ aniccā addhuvā appāyukā cavanadhammā itthattaṃ āgatā’ti. > We who were created by that divinity are impermanent, not lasting, short-lived, liable to pass away, and have come to this place.’ > — The Divine Net ### [2.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.9) Idaṃ, bhikkhave, paṭhamaṃ ṭhānaṃ, yaṃ āgamma yaṃ ārabbha eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā ekaccasassatikā ekaccaasassatikā ekaccaṃ sassataṃ ekaccaṃ asassataṃ attānañca lokañca paññapenti. > This is the first ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the self and the cosmos are partially eternal. > — The Divine Net ## Translations (5) - [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.2.6.1) — Russian - [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.2.6.1) — sr - [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.2.6.1) — German - [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.2.6.1) — English - [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.2.6) — English ## Commentaries (1) - [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.1.43) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Linked texts (3) - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.21) — Classical Chinese - [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.34) — Classical Chinese - [Pāthikasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.24.2.17.13) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.1-9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.2.6.1-9) · Pramāṇa