{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.4","id":"suttacentral_sn22.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time Venerable Mah\u0101kacc\u0101na was staying in the land of the Avantis near Kuraraghara on Steep Mountain. Then the householder H\u0101liddik\u0101ni went up to Venerable Mah\u0101kacc\u0101na \u2026 and asked him, \u201cSir, this was said by the Buddha in \u2018The Questions of Sakka\u2019: \u2018Those ascetics and brahmins who are freed due to the ending of craving have reached the ultimate goal, the ultimate sanctuary from the yoke, the ultimate spiritual life, the ultimate end, and are best among gods and humans.\u2019 How should we see the detailed meaning of the Buddha\u2019s brief statement?\u201d \u201cHouseholder, consider any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for the form element; any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. With the ending, fading away, cessation, giving away, and letting go of that, the mind is said to be \u2018well freed\u2019. Consider any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for the feeling element \u2026 the perception element \u2026 the choices element \u2026 the consciousness element; any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. With the ending, fading away, cessation, giving away, and letting go of that, the mind is said to be \u2018well freed\u2019. So, householder, that\u2019s how to understand the detailed meaning of what the Buddha said in brief in \u2018The Questions of Sakka\u2019: \u2018Those ascetics and brahmins who are freed due to the ending of craving have reached the ultimate goal, the ultimate sanctuary from the yoke, the ultimate spiritual life, the ultimate end, and are best among gods and humans.\u2019\u201d","title":"H\u0101liddik\u0101ni (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":251}