Saṁyutta Nikāya,
V: Mahā-Vagga
51. Iddhipāda Saṁyutta

Kindred Sayings on the Bases of Psychic Power

Chapter I: Cāpāla

Sutta 7

Bhikkhu Suttaṁ

Monk

 

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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, whatsoever monks in time past have,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realized in this very life,
attained and dwelt in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them have done so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.

Whatsoever monks shall in future time,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realize in this very life,
attain and dwell in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them will do so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.

Whatsoever monks at the present time do,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realize in this very life,
attain and dwell in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them do so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.

Of what four?

Herein a monk cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
desire,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.

He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
energy,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.

He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
thought,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.

He cultivates that basis of psychic power
of which the features are
investigation,
together with the co-factors
of concentration
and struggle.

Monks, whatsoever monks in time past have,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realized in this very life,
attained and dwelt in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them have done so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.

Whatsoever monks shall in future time,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realize in this very life,
attain and dwell in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them will do so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.

Whatsoever monks at the present time do,
by the destruction of the āsavas,
by their own personal knowledge
realize in this very life,
attain and dwell in the heart's release,
the release by insight
that is freed from the āsavas,-
all of them do so
by the fact of cultivating and making much of
the four bases of psychic power.