Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.28 3.

Ādittasutta

Sabbavagga Ādittasutta Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā gayāyaṁ viharati gayāsīse saddhiṁ bhikkhusahassena.

At one time, the Blessed One was dwelling at Gayā, on Gayāsīsa, together with a thousand disciples.

Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi: “sabbaṁ, bhikkhave, ādittaṁ.

There, the Blessed One addressed the disciples: Disciples, everything is burning.

Kiñca, bhikkhave, sabbaṁ ādittaṁ?

And what is everything that is burning?

Cakkhu, bhikkhave, ādittaṁ, rūpā ādittā, cakkhuviññāṇaṁ ādittaṁ, cakkhusamphasso āditto. Yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi ādittaṁ.

The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, and whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition: whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant: that too is burning.

Kena ādittaṁ?

Burning with what?

‘Rāgagginā, dosagginā, mohagginā ādittaṁ, jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ādittan’ti vadāmi …pe…

Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion. Burning with birth, aging, and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with distresses, with despairs, I say.

jivhā ādittā, rasā ādittā, jivhāviññāṇaṁ ādittaṁ, jivhāsamphasso āditto. Yampidaṁ jivhāsamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi ādittaṁ.

The tongue is burning, tastes are burning, tongue-consciousness is burning, tongue-contact is burning, and whatever feeling arises with tongue-contact as condition: whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant: that too is burning.

Kena ādittaṁ?

Burning with what?

‘Rāgagginā, dosagginā, mohagginā ādittaṁ, jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ādittan’ti vadāmi …pe…

Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion. Burning with birth, aging, and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with distresses, with despairs, I say.

mano āditto, dhammā ādittā, manoviññāṇaṁ ādittaṁ, manosamphasso āditto. Yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi ādittaṁ.

The mind is burning, mental phenomena are burning, mind-consciousness is burning, mind-contact is burning, and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition: whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant: that too is burning.

Kena ādittaṁ?

Burning with what?

‘Rāgagginā, dosagginā, mohagginā ādittaṁ, jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi ādittan’ti vadāmi.

Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion. Burning with birth, aging, and death, with sorrows, with lamentations, with pains, with distresses, with despairs, I say.

Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhave, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati, rūpesupi nibbindati, cakkhuviññāṇepi nibbindati, cakkhusamphassepi nibbindati, yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tasmimpi nibbindati …pe… yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tasmimpi nibbindati.

Seeing thus the learned noble disciple becomes disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with forms, disenchanted with eye-consciousness, disenchanted with eye-contact, and disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition: whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant. He becomes disenchanted with the mind, disenchanted with mental phenomena, disenchanted with mind-consciousness, disenchanted with mind-contact, and disenchanted with whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition: whether pleasant, painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant.

Nibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.

Being disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is liberated. When liberated, there is knowing that he is liberated.

‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.

He knows: Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.

Idamavoca bhagavā.

This is what the Blessed One said.

Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinanduṁ.

Satisfied, those disciples delighted in the Blessed One's words.

Imasmiñca pana veyyākaraṇasmiṁ bhaññamāne tassa bhikkhusahassassa anupādāya āsavehi cittāni vimucciṁsūti. Chaṭṭhaṁ.

And while this discourse was being spoken, the minds of the thousand disciples were liberated from the taints without grasping.