{"id":"sn12.34","title":"Grounds for Knowledge (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn12.34","title":"Grounds for Knowledge (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn12.34:0","sourceIds":["sn12.34:0.1","sn12.34:0.2","sn12.34:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 12.34\n4. Kaḷārakhattiyavagga\nDutiyañāṇavatthusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 12.34\n4. Kaḷāra the Aristocrat\nGrounds for Knowledge (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn12.34:1","sourceIds":["sn12.34:1.1","sn12.34:1.2","sn12.34:1.3","sn12.34:1.4","sn12.34:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Sattasattari vo, bhikkhave, ñāṇavatthūni desessāmi.\nTaṁ suṇātha, sādhukaṁ manasi karotha, bhāsissāmī”ti.\n“Evaṁ, bhante”ti kho te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, I will teach seventy-seven grounds for knowledge.\nListen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”\n“Yes, sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn12.34:2","sourceIds":["sn12.34:2.1","sn12.34:2.2","sn12.34:2.3","sn12.34:2.4","sn12.34:2.5","sn12.34:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katamāni, bhikkhave, sattasattari ñāṇavatthūni?\nJātipaccayā jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ;\nasati jātiyā natthi jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ;\natītampi addhānaṁ jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ, asati jātiyā natthi jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ;\nanāgatampi addhānaṁ jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ, asati jātiyā natthi jarāmaraṇanti ñāṇaṁ;\nyampissa taṁ dhammaṭṭhitiñāṇaṁ tampi khayadhammaṁ vayadhammaṁ virāgadhammaṁ nirodhadhammanti ñāṇaṁ.","en":"“And what are the seventy-seven grounds for knowledge?\nThe knowledge that rebirth is a requirement for old age and death,\nand the knowledge that when rebirth doesn’t exist, there is no old age and death.\nAlso regarding the past: the knowledge that rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, and the knowledge that when rebirth doesn’t exist, there is no old age and death.\nAlso regarding the future: the knowledge that rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, and the knowledge that when rebirth doesn’t exist, there is no old age and death.\nAnd also their knowledge that even this knowledge of the stability of natural principles is liable to end, vanish, fade away, and cease."}},{"id":"sn12.34:3","sourceIds":["sn12.34:3.1","sn12.34:3.2","sn12.34:3.3","sn12.34:3.4","sn12.34:3.5","sn12.34:3.6","sn12.34:3.7","sn12.34:3.8","sn12.34:3.9","sn12.34:3.10","sn12.34:3.11","sn12.34:3.12","sn12.34:3.13","sn12.34:3.14","sn12.34:3.15"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhavapaccayā jātīti ñāṇaṁ …pe…\nupādānapaccayā bhavoti ñāṇaṁ …\ntaṇhāpaccayā upādānanti ñāṇaṁ …\nvedanāpaccayā taṇhāti ñāṇaṁ …\nphassapaccayā vedanāti ñāṇaṁ …\nsaḷāyatanapaccayā phassoti ñāṇaṁ …\nnāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatananti ñāṇaṁ …\nviññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpanti ñāṇaṁ …\nsaṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇanti ñāṇaṁ;\navijjāpaccayā saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ, asati avijjāya natthi saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ;\natītampi addhānaṁ avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ, asati avijjāya natthi saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ;\nanāgatampi addhānaṁ avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ, asati avijjāya natthi saṅkhārāti ñāṇaṁ;\nyampissa taṁ dhammaṭṭhitiñāṇaṁ tampi khayadhammaṁ vayadhammaṁ virāgadhammaṁ nirodhadhammanti ñāṇaṁ.\nImāni vuccanti, bhikkhave, sattasattari ñāṇavatthūnī”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"The knowledge that continued existence is a requirement for rebirth …\nThe knowledge that ignorance is a requirement for choices, and the knowledge that when ignorance doesn’t exist, there are no choices.\nAlso regarding the past: the knowledge that ignorance is a requirement for choices, and the knowledge that when ignorance doesn’t exist, there are no choices.\nAlso regarding the future: the knowledge that ignorance is a requirement for choices, and the knowledge that when ignorance doesn’t exist, there are no choices.\nAnd also their knowledge that even this knowledge of the stability of natural principles is liable to end, vanish, fade away, and cease.\nThese are called the seventy-seven grounds for knowledge.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.34/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."}