{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn55.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn55.10","id":"suttacentral_sn55.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u0100nanda said to the Buddha: \u201cSir, the layman named Kakka\u1e6da has passed away in \u00d1\u0101tika. Where has he been reborn in his next life? The laymen named Ka\u1e37ibha, Nikata, Ka\u1e6dissaha, Tu\u1e6d\u1e6dha, Santu\u1e6d\u1e6dha, Bhadda, and Subhadda have passed away in \u00d1\u0101tika. Where have they been reborn in the next life?\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, the laymen Kakka\u1e6da, Ka\u1e37ibha, Nikata, Ka\u1e6dissaha, Tu\u1e6d\u1e6dha, Santu\u1e6d\u1e6dha, Bhadda, and Subhadda passed away having ended the five lower fetters. They\u2019ve been reborn spontaneously, and will be extinguished there, not liable to return from that world. Over fifty laymen in \u00d1\u0101tika have passed away having ended the five lower fetters. They\u2019ve been reborn spontaneously, and will be extinguished there, not liable to return from that world. More than ninety laymen in \u00d1\u0101tika have passed away having ended three fetters, and weakened greed, hate, and delusion. They\u2019re once-returners, who will come back to this world once only, then make an end of suffering. More than five hundred laymen in \u00d1\u0101tika have passed away having ended three fetters. They\u2019re stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening. It\u2019s no wonder that a human being should pass away. But if you should come and ask me about it each and every time someone passes away, that would be a bother for me. So \u0100nanda, I will teach you the explanation of the Dhamma named \u2018the mirror of the teaching\u2019. A noble disciple who has this may declare of themselves: \u2018I\u2019ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I\u2019ve finished with all places of loss, bad places, the underworld. I am a stream-enterer! I\u2019m not liable to be reborn in the underworld, and am assured, destined for awakening.\u2019 And what is that mirror of the teaching? It\u2019s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha \u2026 the teaching \u2026 the Sa\u1e45gha \u2026 And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones \u2026 leading to immersion. This is that mirror of the teaching. A noble disciple who has this may declare of themselves: \u2018I\u2019ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I\u2019ve finished with all places of loss, bad places, the underworld. I am a stream-enterer! I\u2019m not liable to be reborn in the underworld, and am assured, destined for awakening.\u2019\u201d","title":"At the Brick Hall (3rd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":384}