{"id":"sn13.7","title":"The Ocean","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn13.7","title":"The Ocean","units":[{"id":"sn13.7:0","sourceIds":["sn13.7:0.1","sn13.7:0.2","sn13.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 13.7\n1. Abhisamayavagga\nSamuddasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 13.7\n1. Comprehension\nThe Ocean"}},{"id":"sn13.7:1","sourceIds":["sn13.7:1.1","sn13.7:1.2","sn13.7:1.3","sn13.7:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso mahāsamuddato dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni uddhareyya.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ, yāni vā dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni yaṁ vā mahāsamudde udakan”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, suppose a man was to draw up two or three drops of water from the ocean.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the two or three drops drawn out or the water in the ocean?”"}},{"id":"sn13.7:2","sourceIds":["sn13.7:2.1","sn13.7:2.2","sn13.7:2.3","sn13.7:2.4","sn13.7:2.5","sn13.7:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ, yadidaṁ mahāsamudde udakaṁ;\nappamattakāni dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatāni.\nNeva satimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na sahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na satasahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti mahāsamudde udakaṁ upanidhāya dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni ubbhatānī”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave …pe…\ndhammacakkhupaṭilābho”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"“Sir, the water in the ocean is certainly more.\nThe two or three drops drawn out are tiny.\nCompared to the water in the ocean, 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/sn13.7/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."}