{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn45.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn45.4","id":"suttacentral_sn45.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then Venerable \u0100nanda robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. He saw the brahmin J\u0101nusso\u1e47i driving out of S\u0101vatth\u012b in an all-white chariot drawn by mares. The yoked horses were pure white, as were the ornaments, chariot, upholstery, reins, goad, and canopy. And his turban, robes, sandals were white, as was the chowry fanning him. When people saw it they exclaimed, \u201cWow! That\u2019s a divine vehicle! It\u2019s a vehicle fit for divinity!\u201d Then \u0100nanda wandered for alms in S\u0101vatth\u012b. After the meal, on his return from almsround, he went to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what had happened, adding, \u201cSir, can you point out a divine vehicle in this teaching and training?\u201d \u201cI can, \u0100nanda,\u201d said the Buddha. \u201cThese are all terms for the noble eightfold path: \u2018divine vehicle\u2019, or else \u2018vehicle of truth\u2019, or else \u2018supreme victory in battle\u2019. When right view is developed and cultivated it culminates with the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. When right purpose \u2026 right speech \u2026 right action \u2026 right livelihood \u2026 right effort \u2026 right mindfulness \u2026 right immersion is developed and cultivated it culminates with the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. This is a way to understand how these are all terms for the noble eightfold path: \u2018divine vehicle\u2019, or else \u2018vehicle of truth\u2019, or else \u2018supreme victory in battle\u2019.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cOf which the qualities of faith and wisdom are always yoked to the shaft; conscience its draft-pole, mind its strap, mindfulness its careful driver; the chariot equipped with ethics, its axle absorption, energy its wheel; equanimity and immersion its draft-pole, desirelessness its upholstery; of which good will, harmlessness, and seclusion are its weaponry; endurance, its shield and armor: to sanctuary from the yoke it rolls\u2014 this, originating in oneself, is the supreme divine vehicle. The attentive leave the world in it, sure of winning the victory.\u201d","title":"Regarding the Brahmin J\u0101nusso\u1e47i","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":339}