Sampasadaniyasutta 16.1-8
Sampasādanīyasutta 16.1-8
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- Pāli
16.1
Aparaṃ pana, bhante, etadānuttariyaṃ, yathā bhagavā dhammaṃ deseti pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇe.
And moreover, sir, how the Buddha teaches the knowledge of recollecting past lives is unsurpassable.
16.2
Idha, bhante, ekacco samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā ātappamanvāya …pe… tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati.
It’s when some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their many kinds of past lives.
16.3
Seyyathidaṃ—ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo jātisatampi jātisahassampi jātisatasahassampi anekepi saṃvaṭṭakappe anekepi vivaṭṭakappe anekepi saṃvaṭṭavivaṭṭakappe,
That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. They remember:
16.4
‘amutrāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto amutra udapādiṃ; tatrāpāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto idhūpapanno’ti. Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati.
‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details.
16.5
Santi, bhante, devā, yesaṃ na sakkā gaṇanāya vā saṅkhānena vā āyu saṅkhātuṃ.
Sir, there are gods whose lifespan cannot be reckoned or calculated.
16.6
Api ca yasmiṃ yasmiṃ attabhāve abhinivuṭṭhapubbo hoti yadi vā rūpīsu yadi vā arūpīsu yadi vā saññīsu yadi vā asaññīsu yadi vā nevasaññīnāsaññīsu.
Still, no matter what incarnation they have previously been reborn in—whether formed or formless or percipient or non-percipient or neither percipient nor non-percipient—
16.7
Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati.
they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details.
16.8
Etadānuttariyaṃ, bhante, pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇe.
This is unsurpassable when it comes to the knowledge of recollecting past lives.
Translations (3)
- Ono što uliva poverenje — sr
- Inspiring Confidence — English
- Zuversicht wecken — German
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
Linked texts (1)
- 長阿含經 — Classical Chinese