Cakkavattisutta 28.1-31
Cakkavattisutta 28.1-31
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- Pāli
28.1
Gocare, bhikkhave, caratha sake pettike visaye.
Mendicants, you should roam inside your own territory, the domain of your fathers.
28.2
Gocare, bhikkhave, carantā sake pettike visaye āyunāpi vaḍḍhissatha, vaṇṇenapi vaḍḍhissatha, sukhenapi vaḍḍhissatha, bhogenapi vaḍḍhissatha, balenapi vaḍḍhissatha.
Doing so, you will grow in lifespan, beauty, happiness, wealth, and power.
28.3
Kiñca, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno āyusmiṃ?
And what is long life for a mendicant?
28.4
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu chandasamādhipadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṃ iddhipādaṃ bhāveti,
It’s when a mendicant develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm, and active effort.
28.5
vīriyasamādhipadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṃ iddhipādaṃ bhāveti,
They develop the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to energy, and active effort.
28.6
cittasamādhipadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṃ iddhipādaṃ bhāveti,
They develop the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to mental development, and active effort.
28.7
vīmaṃsāsamādhipadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṃ iddhipādaṃ bhāveti.
They develop the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to inquiry, and active effort.
28.8
So imesaṃ catunnaṃ iddhipādānaṃ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā ākaṅkhamāno kappaṃ vā tiṭṭheyya kappāvasesaṃ vā.
Having developed and cultivated these four bases of psychic power they may, if they wish, live for the proper lifespan or what’s left of it.
28.9
Idaṃ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno āyusmiṃ.
This is long life for a mendicant.
28.10
Kiñca, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno vaṇṇasmiṃ?
And what is beauty for a mendicant?
28.11
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti, pātimokkhasaṃvarasaṃvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno, aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī, samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu.
It’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.
28.12
Idaṃ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno vaṇṇasmiṃ.
This is beauty for a mendicant.
28.13
Kiñca, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno sukhasmiṃ?
And what is happiness for a mendicant?
28.14
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi vivicca akusalehi dhammehi savitakkaṃ savicāraṃ vivekajaṃ pītisukhaṃ paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati.
It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.
28.15
Vitakkavicārānaṃ vūpasamā …pe… dutiyaṃ jhānaṃ …
As the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption …
28.16
tatiyaṃ jhānaṃ …
third absorption …
28.17
catutthaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharati.
fourth absorption.
28.18
Idaṃ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno, sukhasmiṃ.
This is happiness for a mendicant.
28.19
Kiñca, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno bhogasmiṃ?
And what is wealth for a mendicant?
28.20
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu mettāsahagatena cetasā ekaṃ disaṃ pharitvā viharati tathā dutiyaṃ. Tathā tatiyaṃ. Tathā catutthaṃ. Iti uddhamadho tiriyaṃ sabbadhi sabbattatāya sabbāvantaṃ lokaṃ mettāsahagatena cetasā vipulena mahaggatena appamāṇena averena abyāpajjena pharitvā viharati.
It’s when a monk meditates spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.
28.21
Karuṇāsahagatena cetasā …pe…
They meditate spreading a heart full of compassion …
28.22
muditāsahagatena cetasā …pe…
rejoicing …
28.23
upekkhāsahagatena cetasā ekaṃ disaṃ pharitvā viharati. Tathā dutiyaṃ. Tathā tatiyaṃ. Tathā catutthaṃ. Iti uddhamadho tiriyaṃ sabbadhi sabbattatāya sabbāvantaṃ lokaṃ upekkhāsahagatena cetasā vipulena mahaggatena appamāṇena averena abyāpajjena pharitvā viharati.
equanimity to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of equanimity to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.
28.24
Idaṃ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno bhogasmiṃ.
This is wealth for a mendicant.
28.25
Kiñca, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno balasmiṃ?
And what is power for a mendicant?
28.26
Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu āsavānaṃ khayā anāsavaṃ cetovimuttiṃ paññāvimuttiṃ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṃ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.
It’s when a mendicant realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.
28.27
Idaṃ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno balasmiṃ.
This is power for a mendicant.
28.28
Nāhaṃ, bhikkhave, aññaṃ ekabalampi samanupassāmi yaṃ evaṃ duppasahaṃ, yathayidaṃ, bhikkhave, mārabalaṃ.
Mendicants, I do not see a single power so hard to defeat as the power of Māra.
28.29
Kusalānaṃ, bhikkhave, dhammānaṃ samādānahetu evamidaṃ puññaṃ pavaḍḍhatī”ti.
It is due to undertaking skillful qualities that merit grows.”
28.30
Idamavoca bhagavā.
That is what the Buddha said.
28.31
Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṃ abhinandunti.
Satisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said.
Translations (3)
- O vladaru koji pokreće točak istine — sr
- The Wheel-Turning Monarch — English
- Der Rad-drehende Herrscher — German
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli