Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.1061

v2.c29.1061

6. Brāhmaṇa Sutta.—Two brahmins, skilled in *lokāyata*, visit the Buddha and say that, according to Pūraṇa Kassapa, the world is finite, while, according to Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta, it is infinite, and that both teachers claim omniscience. How can one know which teaching is true? The Buddha dismisses their question and teaches them that it is not by trying to walk to the end of the world that the end of the world can be reached, but by understanding the five strands of sense-desire (*kāmaguṇa*). This can be accomplished by the cultivation of the *jhānas*.¹