Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN22: Connected Discourses on the Aggregates

SN22:23 Full Understanding

1At Sāvatthī. sn.iii.27 "Bhikkhus, I will teach you things that should be fully understood and also full understanding. Listen to that … .

"And what, bhikkhus, are the things that should be fully understood?

Form, bhikkhus, is something that should be fully understood;

feeling is something that should be fully understood;


perception is something that should be fully understood;

volitional formations are something that should be fully understood;


consciousness is something that should be fully understood.

These are called the things that should be fully understood.

"And what, bhikkhus, is full understanding? The destruction of lust, the destruction of hatred, the destruction of delusion. This is called full understanding." [n.41] The explanation of pariññā, full understanding, in terms of the destruction of lust (rāgakkhaya), etc., initially seems puzzling, but see MN I 66–67, where pariññā is used as a virtual synonym for pahāna. Spk specifies pariññā here as accantapariññā, ultimate abandonment, which it glosses as samatikkama, transcendence, and identifies with Nibbāna. Apparently accantapariññā is distinct from the usual three kinds of pariññā, on which see the following note.

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Pariññeyye ca, bhikkhave, dhamme desessāmi pariññāñca. Taṁ suṇātha.

Katame ca, bhikkhave, pariññeyyā dhammā?

Rūpaṁ, bhikkhave, pariññeyyo dhammo,

vedanā pariññeyyo dhammo,


saññā pariññeyyo dhammo,

saṅkhārā pariññeyyo dhammo,


viññāṇaṁ pariññeyyo dhammo.

Ime vuccanti, bhikkhave, pariññeyyā dhammā.

Katamā ca, bhikkhave, pariññā? Yo, bhikkhave, rāgakkhayo dosakkhayo mohakkhayo. Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, pariññā"ti.


Dutiyaṁ.

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