{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn21.12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn21.12","id":"suttacentral_sn21.12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then two mendicants who were companions, prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of Venerable Mah\u0101kappina, went to the Buddha. The Buddha saw them coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, do you see those monks coming who are companions, prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of Venerable Mah\u0101kappina?\u201d \u201cYes, sir.\u201d \u201cThose mendicants are very mighty and powerful. It\u2019s not easy to find an attainment that they have not already attained. And they\u2019ve realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. They live having achieved with their own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cThese companion mendicants have been together for a long time. The true teaching has brought them together, the teaching proclaimed by the Buddha. They\u2019ve been well trained by Kappina in the teaching proclaimed by the Noble One. They bear their final body, having vanquished M\u0101ra with his legions.\u201d The Linked Discourses on monks are complete. The Book of Causality is finished.","title":"Companions","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":178}