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# Brahmajalasutta 3.14

Brahmajālasutta 3.14

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.1)

Tamañño evamāha:

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

### [3.14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.2)

‘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

### [3.14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.3)

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

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

### [3.14.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.4)

Atthi kho, bho, añño attā sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṃ samatikkamma “anantaṃ viññāṇan”ti viññāṇañcāyatanūpago.

> There is another self which has gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite space. Aware that “consciousness is infinite”, it’s reborn in the dimension of infinite consciousness.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.14.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.5)

Taṃ tvaṃ na jānāsi na passasi.

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

### [3.14.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.6)

Tamahaṃ jānāmi passāmi.

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

### [3.14.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.7)

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

### [3.14.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.14.8)

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.3.14.1) — Russian
- [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.3.14.1) — sr
- [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.3.14.1) — German
- [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.3.14.1) — English
- [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.3.14) — English

## 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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