{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn44.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn44.11","id":"suttacentral_sn44.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn44.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Sabhiya Kacc\u0101na was staying at \u00d1\u0101tika in the brick house. Then the wanderer Vacchagotta went up to him, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and said to Sabhiya Kacc\u0101na: \u201cWorthy Kacc\u0101na, does a realized one still exist after death?\u201d \u201cVaccha, this has not been declared by the Buddha.\u201d \u201cWell then, does a realized one no longer exist after death?\u201d \u201cThis too has not been declared by the Buddha.\u201d \u201cWell then, does a realized one both still exist and no longer exist after death?\u201d \u201cThis has not been declared by the Buddha.\u201d \u201cWell then, does a realized one neither still exist nor no longer exist after death?\u201d \u201cThis too has not been declared by the Buddha.\u201d \u201cWorthy Kacc\u0101na, when asked these questions, you say that this has not been declared by the Buddha. What\u2019s the cause, what\u2019s the reason why this has not been declared by the Buddha?\u201d \u201cIn order to describe him as \u2018formed\u2019 or \u2018formless\u2019 or \u2018percipient\u2019 or \u2018non-percipient\u2019 or \u2018neither percipient nor non-percipient\u2019, there must be some cause or reason for doing so. But if that cause and reason were to totally and utterly cease without remainder, how could you describe him in any such terms?\u201d \u201cWorthy Kacc\u0101na, how long has it been since you went forth?\u201d \u201cNot long, reverend: three years.\u201d \u201cOne who has learned this much in this time, reverend, has learned a lot, who can say what lies ahead!\u201d The Linked Discourses on undeclared questions are complete. The Book of the Six Sense Fields is finished.","title":"With Sabhiya Kacc\u0101na","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":268}