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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN27: Connected Discourses on Defilements

SN27:7 Volition

1"Bhikkhus, desire and lust for volition regarding forms, for volition regarding sounds, for volition regarding odours, for volition regarding tastes, for volition regarding tactile objects, sn.iii.234 for volition regarding mental phenomena is a corruption of the mind.


When a bhikkhu has abandoned the mental corruption in these six cases, his mind inclines to renunciation. A mind fortified by renunciation becomes wieldy in regard to those things that are to be realized by direct knowledge."[n.274] Spk: His mind inclines to renunciation (nekkhammaninnaṁ c’ assa cittaṁ hoti): The mind of serenity and insight inclines to the nine supramundane states. Those things to be realized by direct knowledge (abhiññā sacchikaraṇiyesu dhammesu): the things pertaining to the six direct knowledges. Spk does not gloss the verb khāyati, lit. "appears."

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Yo, bhikkhave, rūpasañcetanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo saddasañcetanāya … yo gandhasañcetanāya … yo rasasañcetanāya … yo phoṭṭhabbasañcetanāya … yo dhammasañcetanāya chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.


Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno … pe … abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū"ti.


Sattamaṁ.