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# Brahmajalasutta 3.13

Brahmajālasutta 3.13

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.1)

Tamañño evamāha:

> But someone else says to them:  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.2)

‘atthi kho, bho, eso attā, yaṃ tvaṃ vadesi, neso natthīti vadāmi;

> ‘That self of which you speak does exist, I don’t deny it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.3)

no ca kho, bho, ayaṃ attā ettāvatā sammā samucchinno hoti.

> But that’s not how this self becomes rightly annihilated.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.4)

Atthi kho, bho, añño attā sabbaso rūpasaññānaṃ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṃ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṃ amanasikārā “ananto ākāso”ti ākāsānañcāyatanūpago.

> There is another self which has gone totally beyond perceptions of form. With the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that “space is infinite”, it’s reborn in the dimension of infinite space.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.5)

Taṃ tvaṃ na jānāsi na passasi.

> You don’t know or see that.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.6)

Tamahaṃ jānāmi passāmi.

> But I know it and see it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.7)

So kho, bho, attā yato kāyassa bhedā ucchijjati vinassati, na hoti paraṃ maraṇā, ettāvatā kho, bho, ayaṃ attā sammā samucchinno hotī’ti.

> Since this self is annihilated and destroyed when the body breaks up, and doesn’t exist after death, that’s how this self becomes rightly annihilated.’  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.13.8)

Ittheke sato sattassa ucchedaṃ vināsaṃ vibhavaṃ paññapenti.

> That is how some assert the annihilation of an existing being.  
> — The Divine Net

## Translations (5)

- [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.3.13.1) — Russian
- [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.3.13.1) — sr
- [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.3.13.1) — German
- [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.3.13.1) — English
- [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.3.13) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.1.88-92) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.39) — Classical Chinese
- [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.47) — Classical Chinese

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