Saṁyutta Nikāya,
V: Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṁyutta
III. Chaḷindriya-vaggo

48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
III. The Six Faculties

Sutta 23

Ñāya (Aññ'indriya) Suttaṁ

The Method¹

 

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THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, there are these three controlling faculties.

What three?

The consciousness that

'I shall know the unknown;'

the consciousness of gnosis;

the consciousness of one who has the gnosis.²

These are the three faculties."

 

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¹ Ñāya. Cf. Buddh. Psych. 121; D. iii, 219.

² Buddh. Psych. Eth. 86; V.M. 491; Asḷ. 291; B. 'The faculty of the aññātāvin (the holder of things known), of him who, in the philosophy of the Four Truths, has completed what was to be done.'