Saṁyutta Nikāya:
IV. Saḷāyatana Vagga
35: Saḷāyatana Saṁyutta
Paññāsako Dutiyo
2. Migajāla Vagga

35: Kindred Sayings the Sixfold Sphere of Sense The 'Second Fifty' Suttas
2. The Chapter on Migajāla

Sutta 68

Samiddhi-Loko-Pañha Suttaṁ

Samiddhi (iv)

 

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Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Rājagaha,
in Bamboo Grove,
at the Squirrels' Feeding-ground.

Then the venerable Samiddhi came to the Exalted One and thus addressed him: -

"'The world! The world!¹
is the saying, lord.

Pray, lord, to what extent is there the world,
or the symptoms of the world?"

"Where there is eye, Samiddhi,
objects,
eye-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the eye,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is ear, Samiddhi,
sounds,
ear-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the ear,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is nose, Samiddhi,
scents,
nose-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the nose,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is tongue, Samiddhi,
savours,
tongue-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the tongue,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is body, Samiddhi,
tangibles,
body-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the body,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is mind, Samiddhi,
mind-states,
mind-consciousness,
and things cognizable by the mind,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

 

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"But where there is no eye, Samiddhi,
no objects,
no eye-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the eye,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is no ear, Samiddhi,
no sounds,
no ear-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the ear,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is no nose, Samiddhi,
no scents,
no nose-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the nose,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is no tongue, Samiddhi,
no savours,
no tongue-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the tongue,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is no body, Samiddhi,
no tangibles,
no body-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the body,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world.

Where there is no mind, Samiddhi,
no mind-states,
no mind-consciousness,
and no things cognizable by the mind,
there is the world
or symptoms of the world."

 

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¹ Loka. Lujjana palujjanaṭṭhena. Comy. (The usual commentarial derivation, of the word, as meaning 'that which crumbles away.')