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Linked Discourses 35.128 – Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.128

13. Householders – 13. Gahapativagga

SN 35.128 With Soṇa – Soṇasutta

 

At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.

Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.

Then the householder Soṇa went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:

Atha kho soṇo gahapatiputto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho soṇo gahapatiputto bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

“What is the cause, sir, what is the reason why some sentient beings aren’t fully extinguished in the present life?

“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme no parinibbāyanti?

What is the cause, sir, what is the reason why some sentient beings are fully extinguished in the present life?” …

Ko pana, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme parinibbāyantī”ti?

(This should be told in full as in SN 35.118.)

(Yathā purimasuttantaṁ, evaṁ vitthāretabbaṁ.)

 

Ayaṁ kho, soṇa, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme parinibbāyantīti.