{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn51.12/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn51.12","id":"suttacentral_sn51.12","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn51.12/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, when the four bases of psychic power are developed and cultivated they\u2019re very fruitful and beneficial. How so? It\u2019s when a mendicant develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm, and active effort. They think: \u2018My enthusiasm won\u2019t be too lax or too tense. And it\u2019ll be neither constricted internally nor scattered externally.\u2019 And they meditate perceiving before and behind: as before, so behind; as behind, so before; as below, so above; as above, so below; as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. And so, with an open and unenveloped heart, they develop a mind that\u2019s full of radiance. They develop the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to energy \u2026 mental development \u2026 inquiry, and active effort. They think: \u2018My inquiry won\u2019t be too lax or too tense. And it\u2019ll be neither constricted internally nor scattered externally.\u2019 And they meditate perceiving before and behind: as before, so behind; as behind, so before; as below, so above; as above, so below; as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. And so, with an open and unenveloped heart, they develop a mind that\u2019s full of radiance. When the four bases of psychic power have been developed and cultivated in this way they\u2019re very fruitful and beneficial. When the four bases of psychic power have been developed and cultivated in this way, a mendicant wields the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying themselves and becoming one again \u2026 controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity. \u2026 When the four bases of psychic power have been developed and cultivated in this way, they realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u201d","title":"Very Fruitful","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":309}