{"id":"sn13.3","title":"Where the Waters Join Together","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn13.3","title":"Where the Waters Join Together","units":[{"id":"sn13.3:0","sourceIds":["sn13.3:0.1","sn13.3:0.2","sn13.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 13.3\n1. Abhisamayavagga\nSambhejjaudakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 13.3\n1. Comprehension\nWhere the Waters Join Together"}},{"id":"sn13.3:1","sourceIds":["sn13.3:1.1","sn13.3:1.2","sn13.3:1.3","sn13.3:1.4","sn13.3:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yatthimā mahānadiyo saṁsandanti samenti, seyyathidaṁ—\ngaṅgā yamunā aciravatī sarabhū mahī, tato puriso dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni uddhareyya.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ, yāni vā dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni yaṁ vā sambhejjaudakan”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, there are places where the great rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—join together and converge.\nSuppose a person was to draw two or three drops of water from such a place.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the two or three drops drawn out or the water in the confluence?”"}},{"id":"sn13.3:2","sourceIds":["sn13.3:2.1","sn13.3:2.2","sn13.3:2.3","sn13.3:2.4","sn13.3:2.5","sn13.3:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ yadidaṁ sambhejjaudakaṁ;\nappamattakāni dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni.\nNeva satimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na sahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na satasahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti sambhejjaudakaṁ upanidhāya dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatānī”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave …pe…\ndhammacakkhupaṭilābho”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"“Sir, the water in the confluence is certainly more.\nThe two or three drops drawn out are tiny.\nCompared to the water in the confluence, it’s not nearly a hundredth, a thousandth, or a hundred thousandth part.”\n“In the same way, for a noble disciple, the suffering that’s over and done with is more …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn13.3/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."}