MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> - 16<br />
“Yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā<br />
“When (the nature of) things 26 becomes really manifest<br />
Ātāpino jhāyato brāhmaṇassa,<br />
To the ardent meditating brāhmaṇa, 27<br />
Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti sabbā,<br />
<strong>The</strong>n all his doubts disappear,<br />
Yato pajānāti sahetudhamman”-ti.<br />
Since he knows (the nature of a) thing and its cause.” 28<br />
* * *<br />
Atha kho Bhagavā rattiyā majjhimaṁ yāmaṁ,<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Gracious One, 29 for the middle watch of the night,<br />
paṭiccasamuppādaṁ anulomapaṭilomaṁ manasākāsi:<br />
applied his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in forward and reverse order:<br />
“Avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā,<br />
“Because of ignorance there are (volitional) processes,<br />
saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ,<br />
because of (volitional) processes: consciousness,<br />
viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ,<br />
because of consciousness: mind and body,<br />
nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ,<br />
because of mind and body: the six sense spheres,<br />
saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso,<br />
because of the six sense spheres: contact,<br />
26 Comm: Dhammā ti anulomapaccayākārapaṭivedhasādhikā Bodhipakkhiyādhammā ... Catu-<br />
Ariyasaccadhammā; the (nature of) things means things on the side of Awakening that effect<br />
the experience of the causal series in forward order ... [or] ... (understanding the nature of)<br />
the Four Noble Truths. This verse refers to understanding the origination of suffering.<br />
27 Comm: brāhmaṇassā ti bāhitapāpassa khīṇāsavassa; to the one who has destroyed the<br />
pollutants and removed wickedness.<br />
28 Comm: avijjādikena hetunā sahetukaṁ imaṁ saṅkhārādiṁ kevalaṁ<br />
dukkhakkhandhadhammaṁ pajānāti; he knows ignorance and so on and its cause, together<br />
with its cause, this whole mass of suffering beginning with (mental) processes and so on.<br />
29 Udāna has a longer opening here parallel to the first discourse; the same remark applies to<br />
the next section, cf. Udāna 1.2 and 1.3.