<!-- Pramāṇa, a library of Indian primary sources · https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.1-17 -->

[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) › [With Janavasabha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18) › 27.1-17

# With Janavasabha 27.1-17

Janavasabhasutta 27.1-17

- **Language:** Pāli

### [27.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.1)

Imamatthaṃ, bhante, brahmā sanaṅkumāro bhāsittha.

> That is the topic on which the divinity Sanaṅkumāra spoke.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.2)

Imamatthaṃ, bhante, brahmā sanaṅkumāro bhāsitvā deve tāvatiṃse āmantesi:

> And having spoken about that, he addressed the gods of the thirty-three:  
> — With Janavasabha

### 9. Sattasamādhiparikkhāra

### [27.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.4)

“Taṃ kiṃ maññanti, bhonto devā tāvatiṃsā, yāva supaññattā cime tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahatā sammāsambuddhena satta samādhiparikkhārā sammāsamādhissa paribhāvanāya sammāsamādhissa pāripūriyā.

> “What do the good gods of the thirty-three think? How well described by the Buddha are the seven prerequisites of immersion for the development and fulfillment of right immersion!  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.5)

Katame satta?

> What seven?  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.6)

Sammādiṭṭhi sammāsaṅkappo sammāvācā sammākammanto sammāājīvo sammāvāyāmo sammāsati.

> Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.7)

Yā kho, bho, imehi sattahaṅgehi cittassa ekaggatā parikkhatā, ayaṃ vuccati, bho, ariyo sammāsamādhi saupaniso itipi saparikkhāro itipi.

> Unification of mind with these seven factors as prerequisites is called noble right immersion ‘with its vital conditions’ and also ‘with its prerequisites’.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.8)

Sammādiṭṭhissa, bho, sammāsaṅkappo pahoti, sammāsaṅkappassa sammāvācā pahoti, sammāvācassa sammākammanto pahoti. Sammākammantassa sammāājīvo pahoti, sammāājīvassa sammāvāyāmo pahoti, sammāvāyāmassa sammāsati pahoti, sammāsatissa sammāsamādhi pahoti, sammāsamādhissa sammāñāṇaṃ pahoti, sammāñāṇassa sammāvimutti pahoti.

> Right view produces right purpose. Right purpose produces right speech. Right speech produces right action. Right action produces right livelihood. Right livelihood produces right effort. Right effort produces right mindfulness. Right mindfulness produces right immersion. Right immersion produces right knowledge. Right knowledge produces right freedom.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.9)

Yañhi taṃ, bho, sammā vadamāno vadeyya:

> If anything should be rightly described as  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.10)

‘svākkhāto bhagavatā dhammo sandiṭṭhiko akāliko ehipassiko opaneyyiko paccattaṃ veditabbo viññūhi apārutā amatassa dvārā’ti idameva taṃ sammā vadamāno vadeyya.

> ‘a teaching that’s well explained by the Buddha, apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves; and the doors to freedom from death are flung open,’ it’s this.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.11)

Svākkhāto hi, bho, bhagavatā dhammo sandiṭṭhiko, akāliko ehipassiko opaneyyiko paccattaṃ veditabbo viññūhi apārutā amatassa dvārā.

> For the teaching is well explained by the Buddha—apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves—and the doors to freedom from death are flung open.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.12)

Ye hi keci, bho, buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgatā, dhamme aveccappasādena samannāgatā, saṅghe aveccappasādena samannāgatā, ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgatā, ye cime opapātikā dhammavinītā sātirekāni catuvīsatisatasahassāni māgadhakā paricārakā abbhatītā kālaṅkatā tiṇṇaṃ saṃyojanānaṃ parikkhayā sotāpannā avinipātadhammā niyatā sambodhiparāyaṇā.

> Whoever has experiential confidence in the Buddha, the teaching, and the Saṅgha, and has the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones; and whoever is spontaneously reborn, and is trained in the teaching; more than 2,400,000 such Magadhan devotees have passed away having ended three fetters. They’re stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.13)

Atthi cevettha sakadāgāmino.

> And there are once-returners here, too.  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.14)

Atthāyaṃ itarā pajā,

> And as for the rest of folk,  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.15)

puññābhāgāti me mano;

> who I think have shared in merit—  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.16)

Saṅkhātuṃ nopi sakkomi,

> I couldn’t even number them,  
> — With Janavasabha

### [27.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.17)

musāvādassa ottappan”ti.

> for fear of speaking falsely.”  
> — With Janavasabha

## Translations (3)

- [Mit Janavasabha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18~de-sabbamitta.27.1) — German
- [With Janavasabha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18~en-sujato.27.1) — English
- [Govor o Đanavasabhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18~sr-brankokovacevic.27.1) — sr

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.18.290) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.4.21) — Classical Chinese
- [人仙經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.janavasabhasutra*zh-dharmabhadra.1.18) — Classical Chinese

---
Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.1-17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.18.27.1-17) · Pramāṇa
