{"id":"an9.24","title":"Abodes of Sentient Beings","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.24","title":"Abodes of Sentient Beings","units":[{"id":"an9.24:0","sourceIds":["an9.24:0.1","an9.24:0.2","an9.24:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.24\n3. Sattāvāsavagga\nSattāvāsasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.24\n3. Abodes of Sentient Beings\nAbodes of Sentient Beings"}},{"id":"an9.24:1","sourceIds":["an9.24:1.1","an9.24:1.2","an9.24:1.3","an9.24:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Navayime, bhikkhave, sattāvāsā.\nKatame nava?\nSanti, bhikkhave, sattā nānattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi manussā, ekacce ca devā, ekacce ca vinipātikā.\nAyaṁ paṭhamo sattāvāso.","en":"“Mendicants, there are nine abodes of sentient beings.\nWhat nine?\nThere are sentient beings that are diverse in body and diverse in perception, such as human beings, some gods, and some beings in the underworld.\nThis is the first abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:2","sourceIds":["an9.24:2.1","an9.24:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā nānattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā brahmakāyikā paṭhamābhinibbattā.\nAyaṁ dutiyo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that are diverse in body and unified in perception, such as the gods reborn in the Divinity’s host through the first absorption.\nThis is the second abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:3","sourceIds":["an9.24:3.1","an9.24:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā ekattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā ābhassarā.\nAyaṁ tatiyo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that are unified in body and diverse in perception, such as the gods of sublime luminosity.\nThis is the third abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:4","sourceIds":["an9.24:4.1","an9.24:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā ekattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā subhakiṇhā.\nAyaṁ catuttho sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that are unified in body and unified in perception, such as the gods of universal beauty.\nThis is the fourth abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:5","sourceIds":["an9.24:5.1","an9.24:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā asaññino appaṭisaṁvedino, seyyathāpi devā asaññasattā.\nAyaṁ pañcamo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that are non-percipient and do not experience anything, such as the gods who are non-percipient beings.\nThis is the fifth abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:6","sourceIds":["an9.24:6.1","an9.24:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ chaṭṭho sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond perceptions of form. With the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite space.\nThis is the sixth abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:7","sourceIds":["an9.24:7.1","an9.24:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘anantaṁ viññāṇan’ti viññāṇañcāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ sattamo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite space. Aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nThis is the seventh abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:8","sourceIds":["an9.24:8.1","an9.24:8.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘natthi kiñcī’ti ākiñcaññāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ aṭṭhamo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness. Aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, they have been reborn in the dimension of nothingness.\nThis is the eighth abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:9","sourceIds":["an9.24:9.1","an9.24:9.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso ākiñcaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma nevasaññānāsaññāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ navamo sattāvāso.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of nothingness. They have been reborn in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.\nThis is the ninth abode of sentient beings."}},{"id":"an9.24:10","sourceIds":["an9.24:10.1","an9.24:10.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ime kho, bhikkhave, nava sattāvāsā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"These are the nine abodes of sentient beings.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.24/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."}