Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana - First Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 4

Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - First Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 4

ACCORDING TO
KACCANA THERA

TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI BY
BHIKKHU NANAMOLI
Pali Text Society
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823. Herein, what is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept ?
( Whose cognizance is steady as a rock
And never can be made to shudder,
Is free from lust and lust-provoking things
Untroubled too by any trouble;
Whose cognizance is thus maintained in being,
How then shall suffering come to him?)
(Ud, 41;Pe24-5, 190).
[150] This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
824. Also the tenth(?) prose-exposition of the venerable Sariputta's
[in reply to a certain bhikkhu's accusation that after insulting him
he was going] wandering [without apologizing] can be quoted
(A iv, 373-8; Pe 25, 195).
1
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
(i.e., 'attachment ' to insight, which leads to non-attachment), though neither
seems quite safe, and the meaning remains unsettled.
824/1 NettiA and Tiled ignore. This reference is taken up from Pe 25 and
195, which establishes the Anguttara ref. In the A. text , since there are 9,
not 10, paras to the Sihandda, it is not clear what 'tenth' (dasamam) means
here. Cf. also story in DhA. ad Dh. 95.

825. ( When a divine excludes ideas of evil,
Eschews 'ha-hum',
1
is unsoiled, self-controlled,
And, perfect in science, lives the life divine,
Then he might use the word 'divine' by right
As one who has no favourites in the world)
(TO. 3; Vin. i, 3).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
826. (Enlightened Ones with fetters none,
Excluding all ideas of evil
Walking always in mindfulness:
They are divine ones in the world) (Ud. 4).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
827. ( Where neither water nor yet earth
Nor fire nor air a footing finds,
There the white [stars] never shine,
There no sun's orb is displayed,
There no full moon ever beams,
There no darkness can be found.
When he knows this for himself,
The Stilled One made divine by stillness,
Then he is free from form and formless,
And [free] from pain and pleasure too) (Ud. 9).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
828. (When a divine has reached the further shore
Concerning all ideas that are his own,
Then [it is certain that] he has outstripped
This goblin with his shouts of 'PakkulaTy (Ud. 5).
This is the type of'Thread dealing with the Adept.
829. (He had no relish for her coming,
And had no sorrow when she left,
Sangdmaji is freed from clinging (sanga)
As one, I say, become divine) (Ud. 6).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
825/1 'Huhunkajatiko brahma7W)
is commented on as 'one who says "hum,
hum" out of pride', and l
nihuhunko)
means without that.

830. [151] (Purity comes not through water;
Many people wash in that.
In whom are Truth and Trite Idea,
He is pure, he is divine) (Ud. 6).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
831. (When true ideas are manifest to him that lives
As one become divine by ardent meditation,
Then where he stands he scatters Mara's [serried] hosts
As the sun's orb illuminates the firmament) (Ud. 2; Vin. i, 2).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
832. (See hmv he goes with faculties [all] quieted,
He has the Triple Science, naught [remains]
For his abandoning, all bonds outstripped,
He with no owning goes, wears refuse-rags.
And many a mighty deity draws near
To that [great] thoroughbred, designed divinely,
1
Who did reject the lineage power, and they
Pay homage to him here
2
with confident minds:
'Honour to thee,
3
Man-thoroughbred, First among men,
Whose meditation's field we do not know) ( ).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
833. (Indeed, bhikkhus, these [two] companions [here]
For very long have been together meeting,
1
And the true object of their faith is met
In the Ideal the Enlightened One proclaimed.
By Kappina they were well guided out
In the Ideal proclaimed by Noble Ones,
832/1 ' Vimdnd' here in i
brahma-vimdnam)
does not seem to be in any of the
ordinary senses. NettiA ignores.
832/2 l
N-idha)
presumably stands for nam idha. C reads nidham.
832/3 Reading with G and Bb yassa te ndbhijdndma, the expression yassa te
being a doubled pronoun, cf. so1
ham, tassa me, etc.
833/1 'Sametikd (adj.)—meeting together (going together)': PED gives only
one ref., namely Sn. 285' in error for S. ii, 285 ( = this ref.), and, giving no
reason, substitutes samdhitd; but all texts and NettiA confirm sametikd, which
both fits the context and makes sense of the word-play with sameti ('is met')
in the next line.

And now for the last time they bear a body,
After conquering Mara with his mount) (S. ii, 285).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
834. (Extinction giving freedom from all ties,
In no case can that ever be arrived at
Either with weakness as the instigation
Or yet through insufficient fortitude.
[152] And this young bhikkhu [here has now attained]
The state that is foremost among mankind
Since now he bears for the last time a body,
After conquering Mara with his mount) (S. ii, 278).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
835. (Mogharaja the unsightly,
Coarse robes wearing, ever mindful,
Taints exhausted, rid of fetters,
Task completed, rid of taints,
With Triple Science, Magic Powers,
Skill in penetrating hearts;
And now for the last time he bears a body,
After conquering Mara with his mount ) ( ).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.
836. ('Bhikkhus, a Perfect One, accomplished and fully enlightened,
who is liberated owing to dispassion, fading of lust, cessation, and non-
arising, in the case of form, is called a "Fully Enlightened One", [and]
a bhikkhu liberated through understanding,
1
who is liberated owing to
dispassion, fading of lust, cessation, and non-arising, in the case of
form, is called "liberated through understa)nding" . . . [similar para-
graphs for] feeling . . , perception . . . determinations . . . conscious-
ness . . . Herein, what is a distinction, what is a difference, what is a
variance, between a Perfect One, accomplished and fully enlightened,
and a bhikkhu liberated through understanding V—'Venerable sir, our
ideas are rooted in the Blessed One, [the Blessed One is their guide
and their home. It is good that the meaning of these words should
occur to the Blessed One. Having heard it from the Blessed One, the
bhikkhus will remember it.'—'Then listen, bhikkhus, and attend
836/1 Seen. 946/2.

carefully to what I shall say.'—'Even so, venerable sir' they replied.
The Blessed One said this:]—e
Bhikkhus, a Perfect One, accomplished
and fully enlightened, is the arouser of the unarisen path, the producer
of the unproduced path, the declarer of the undeclared path, path-
Jcnower, path-seer, and skilled in the path. But now when his hearers
become possessed of the path by abiding in conformity therewith, they
do so following after him. This is a distinction, this is a difference,
this is a variance, between a Perfect One, accomplished and fully
enlightened, and a bhikkhu liberated through understanding ) (S. iii,
65f.).
This is the type of Thread dealing with the Adept.