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SN 48.28PTS SN 5.2051 min read

Awakened

Sambuddhasutta

The Buddha did not claim to be awakened until he realized the origin, the passing, the gratification, the drawback, and the escape regarding the six faculties.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.28Linked Discourses 48.28
  • 0.23. Chaḷindriyavagga3. The Six Faculties

0.3SambuddhasuttaAwakened

1.1PTS 5.206“Chayimāni, bhikkhave, indriyāni.“Mendicants, there are these six faculties.1.2Katamāni cha?What six?1.3Cakkhundriyaṁ, sotindriyaṁ, ghānindriyaṁ, jivhindriyaṁ, kāyindriyaṁ, manindriyaṁ.The faculties of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

1.4Yāvakīvañcāhaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ channaṁ indriyānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññāsiṁ, neva tāvāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya ‘anuttaraṁ sammāsambodhiṁ abhisambuddho’ti paccaññāsiṁ.As long as I didn’t truly understand these six faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape, I didn’t announce my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.

1.5Yato ca khvāhaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ channaṁ indriyānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññāsiṁ, athāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya ‘anuttaraṁ sammāsambodhiṁ abhisambuddho’ti paccaññāsiṁ.But when I did truly understand these six faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape, I announced my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.

1.6Ñāṇañca pana me dassanaṁ udapādi:Knowledge and vision arose in me:1.7‘akuppā me vimutti, ayamantimā jāti, natthi dāni punabbhavo’”ti.‘My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there’ll be no more future lives.’”

1.8Aṭṭhamaṁ.