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Dhammacakka-Pavattana Sutta
by Spiritus Site
in 05 Jul 2006
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2) ii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the motivation of Dukkha, and this motivation must be abandoned”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
2) iii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the motivation of Dukkha, and this motivation has been abandoned”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
3) i - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the cessation of Dukkha”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
3) ii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the cessation of Dukkha, and this cessation must be realized”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
3) iii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the cessation of Dukkha, and this cessation has been realized”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
4) i - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of Dukkha”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
4) ii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of Dukkha, and this way must be developed”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
4) iii - Thus reflecting “This is the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of Dukkha, and this way has been developed”. Such was the vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me before.
“As long as my knowing and seeing how things are, was not quite purified in these twelve aspects, in these three phases of each of the four noble truths, I did not claim in the world with its gods, its Maras and high divinities, in this generation with its monks and brahmans, with its princes and men to have discovered the full Awakening that is supreme. But as soon as my knowing and seeing how things are, was quite purified in these twelve aspects, in these three phases of each of the four noble truths, then I claimed in the world with its gods, its Maras and high divinities, in this generation with its monks and brahmans, its princes and men to have discovered the full Awakening that is supreme. Knowing and seeing arose in me thus: 'My heart's deliverance is unassailable. This is the last birth. Now there is no renewal of being”.
That is what the Blessed One said. The bhikkhus of the group of five were glad, and they approved his words.
Now during this utterance, there arose in the venerable Kondañña the spotless, immaculate vision of the True Idea: "Whatever is subject to arising is all subject to cessation".
When the Wheel of Truth had thus been set rolling by the Blessed One the earthgods raised the cry: "At Benares, in the Deer Park at Isipatana, the matchless Wheel of truth has been set rolling by the Blessed One, not to be stopped by monk or divine or god or death-angel or high divinity or anyone in the world".
On hearing the earth-gods' cry, all the gods in turn in the six paradises of the sensual sphere took up the cry till it reached beyond the Retinue of High Divinity in the sphere of pure form. And so indeed in that hour, at that moment, the cry soared up to the World of High Divinity, and this ten-thousandfold world-element shook and rocked and quaked, and a great measureless radiance surpassing the very nature of the gods was displayed in the world.
Then the Blessed One uttered the exclamation: “Kondañña knows! Kondañña knows!”, and that is how that venerable one acquired the name, Añña-Kondañña — Kondañña who knows.
Here ends the Discourse on Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma
(Dhamma – Generally means the Truth, the Way, the Life, such as exposed and experienced by the Buddha (§) Gautama. The Law or Code that liberates and leads to freedom.)
Translation of Dhammiko
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