{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.42/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.42","id":"suttacentral_sn48.42","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.42/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then U\u1e47\u1e47\u0101bha the brahmin went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha: \u201cWorthy Gotama, these five faculties have different domains and different ranges, and don\u2019t experience each other\u2019s domain and range. What five? The faculties of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body. What do these five faculties, with their different domains and ranges, have recourse to? What experiences their domains and ranges?\u201d \u201cBrahmin, these five faculties have different domains and different ranges, and don\u2019t experience each other\u2019s domain and range. What five? The faculties of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body. These five faculties, with their different domains and ranges, have recourse to the mind. And the mind experiences their domains and ranges.\u201d \u201cBut worthy Gotama, what does the mind have recourse to?\u201d \u201cThe mind has recourse to mindfulness.\u201d \u201cBut what does mindfulness have recourse to?\u201d \u201cMindfulness has recourse to freedom.\u201d \u201cBut what does freedom have recourse to?\u201d \u201cFreedom has recourse to extinguishment.\u201d \u201cBut what does extinguishment have recourse to?\u201d \u201cThis question goes too far, brahmin! You weren\u2019t able to grasp the limit of questioning. For extinguishment is the objective, destination, and culmination of the spiritual life.\u201d And then the brahmin U\u1e47\u1e47\u0101bha approved and agreed with what the Buddha said. He got up from his seat, bowed and respectfully circled the Buddha, keeping him on his right, before leaving. Then, not long after he had left, the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u201cSuppose there was a bungalow or a hall with a peaked roof, with windows on the eastern side. When the sun rises and a ray of light enters through a window, where would it land?\u201d \u201cOn the western wall, sir.\u201d \u201cIn the same way, the brahmin U\u1e47\u1e47\u0101bha\u2019s faith in the Realized One is settled, rooted, and planted deep. It\u2019s strong and can\u2019t be shifted by any ascetic or brahmin or god or M\u0101ra or divinity or by anyone in the world. If he were to pass away at this time, he would be bound by no fetter that might return him to this world.\u201d","title":"The Brahmin U\u1e47\u1e47\u0101bha","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":360}