{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn51.31/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn51.31","id":"suttacentral_sn51.31","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn51.31/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"There the Buddha addressed the mendicants: \u201cWhat do you think, mendicants? What things has the mendicant Moggall\u0101na developed and cultivated so as to have such power and might?\u201d \u201cOur teachings are rooted in the Buddha. He is our guide and our refuge. \u2026\u201d \u201cThe mendicant Moggall\u0101na has become so powerful and mighty by developing and cultivating the four bases of psychic power. What four? Moggall\u0101na develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm, and active effort. He thinks: \u2018My enthusiasm won\u2019t be too lax or too tense. And it\u2019ll be neither constricted internally nor scattered externally.\u2019 And he meditates 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, he develops a mind that\u2019s full of radiance. He develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to energy \u2026 mental development \u2026 inquiry, and active effort. He thinks: \u2018My inquiry won\u2019t be too lax or too tense. And it\u2019ll be neither constricted internally nor scattered externally.\u2019 \u2026 And so, with an open and unenveloped heart, he develops a mind that\u2019s full of radiance. The mendicant Moggall\u0101na has become so powerful and mighty by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power. And by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power, the mendicant Moggall\u0101na wields the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying himself and becoming one again \u2026 controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity. And by developing and cultivating these four bases of psychic power, the mendicant Moggall\u0101na realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And he lives having realized it with his own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\u201d","title":"About Moggall\u0101na","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":310}