{"id":"an10.26","title":"With Kāḷī","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an10.26","title":"With Kāḷī","units":[{"id":"an10.26:0","sourceIds":["an10.26:0.1","an10.26:0.2","an10.26:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.26\n3. Mahāvagga\nKāḷīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 10.26\n3. The Great Chapter\nWith Kāḷī"}},{"id":"an10.26:1","sourceIds":["an10.26:1.1","an10.26:1.2","an10.26:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā mahākaccāno avantīsu viharati kuraraghare pavatte pabbate.\nAtha kho kāḷī upāsikā kuraragharikā yenāyasmā mahākaccāno tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmantaṁ mahākaccānaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinnā kho kāḷī upāsikā kuraragharikā āyasmantaṁ mahākaccānaṁ etadavoca:\n“vuttamidaṁ, bhante, bhagavatā kumāripañhesu:","en":"At one time Venerable Mahākaccāna was staying in the land of the Avantis near Kuraraghara on Steep Mountain.\nThen the laywoman Kāḷī of Kurughara went up to Venerable Mahākaccāna, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him,\n“Sir, this was said by the Buddha in ‘The Maidens’ Questions’:"}},{"id":"an10.26:2","sourceIds":["an10.26:2.1","an10.26:2.2","an10.26:2.3","an10.26:2.4","an10.26:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Atthassa pattiṁ hadayassa santiṁ,\nJetvāna senaṁ piyasātarūpaṁ;\nEkohaṁ jhāyaṁ sukhamanubodhiṁ,\nTasmā janena na karomi sakkhiṁ;\nSakkhī na sampajjati kenaci me’ti.","en":"‘I’ve reached the goal, peace of heart.\nHaving conquered the army of the likable and pleasant,\nalone, practicing absorption, I awakened to bliss.\nThat’s why I don’t get too close to people,\nand no one gets too close to me.’"}},{"id":"an10.26:3","sourceIds":["an10.26:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imassa kho, bhante, bhagavatā saṅkhittena bhāsitassa kathaṁ vitthārena attho daṭṭhabbo”ti?","en":"How should we see the detailed meaning of the Buddha’s brief statement?”"}},{"id":"an10.26:4","sourceIds":["an10.26:4.1","an10.26:4.2","an10.26:4.3","an10.26:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pathavīkasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini, eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā ‘attho’ti abhinibbattesuṁ.\nYāvatā kho, bhagini, pathavīkasiṇasamāpattiparamatā, tadabhiññāsi bhagavā.\nTadabhiññāya bhagavā assādamaddasa ādīnavamaddasa nissaraṇamaddasa maggāmaggañāṇadassanamaddasa.\nTassa assādadassanahetu ādīnavadassanahetu nissaraṇadassanahetu maggāmaggañāṇadassanahetu atthassa patti hadayassa santi viditā hoti.","en":"“Sister, some ascetics and brahmins regard the attainment of the meditation on universal earth to be the ultimate. Thinking ‘this is the goal’, they are reborn.\nThe Buddha directly knew the extent to which the attainment of the meditation on universal earth was the ultimate.\nDirectly knowing this he saw the beginning, the drawback, and the escape. And he saw the knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path.\nBecause he saw the beginning, the drawback, and the escape, and he saw the knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path, he knew that he had reached the goal, peace of heart."}},{"id":"an10.26:5","sourceIds":["an10.26:5.1","an10.26:5.2","an10.26:5.3","an10.26:5.4","an10.26:5.5","an10.26:5.6","an10.26:5.7","an10.26:5.8","an10.26:5.9","an10.26:5.10","an10.26:5.11","an10.26:5.12","an10.26:5.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āpokasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …pe…\ntejokasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nvāyokasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nnīlakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\npītakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nlohitakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nodātakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nākāsakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini …\nviññāṇakasiṇasamāpattiparamā kho, bhagini, eke samaṇabrāhmaṇā ‘attho’ti abhinibbattesuṁ.\nYāvatā kho, bhagini, viññāṇakasiṇasamāpattiparamatā, tadabhiññāsi bhagavā.\nTadabhiññāya bhagavā assādamaddasa … ādīnavamaddasa … nissaraṇamaddasa … maggāmaggañāṇadassanamaddasa …\ntassa assādadassanahetu ādīnavadassanahetu nissaraṇadassanahetu maggāmaggañāṇadassanahetu atthassa patti hadayassa santi viditā hoti.\nIti kho, bhagini, yaṁ taṁ vuttaṁ bhagavatā kumāripañhesu:","en":"Some ascetics and brahmins regard the attainment of the meditation on universal water to be the ultimate. Thinking ‘this is the goal’, they are reborn. …\nSome ascetics and brahmins regard the attainment of the meditation on universal fire …\nuniversal air …\nuniversal blue …\nuniversal yellow …\nuniversal red …\nuniversal white …\nuniversal space …\nuniversal consciousness to be the ultimate. Thinking ‘this is the goal’, they are reborn.\nThe Buddha directly knew the extent to which the attainment of the meditation on universal consciousness was the ultimate.\nDirectly knowing this he saw the beginning, the drawback, and the escape. And he saw the knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path.\nBecause he saw the beginning, the drawback, and the escape, and he saw the knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path, he knew that he had reached the goal, peace of heart.\nSo, sister, that’s how to understand the detailed meaning of what the Buddha said in brief in ‘The Maidens’ Questions’:"}},{"id":"an10.26:6","sourceIds":["an10.26:6.1","an10.26:6.2","an10.26:6.3","an10.26:6.4","an10.26:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Atthassa pattiṁ hadayassa santiṁ,\nJetvāna senaṁ piyasātarūpaṁ;\nEkohaṁ jhāyaṁ sukhamanubodhiṁ,\nTasmā janena na karomi sakkhiṁ;\nSakkhī na sampajjati kenaci me’ti.","en":"‘I’ve reached the goal, peace of heart.\nHaving conquered the army of the likable and pleasant,\nalone, practicing absorption, I awakened to bliss.\nThat’s why I don’t get too close to people,\nand no one gets too close to me.’”"}},{"id":"an10.26:7","sourceIds":["an10.26:7.1","an10.26:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imassa kho, bhagini, bhagavatā saṅkhittena bhāsitassa evaṁ vitthārena attho daṭṭhabbo”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.26/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}