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title: "Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 37 of 105
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/37/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga, section 37. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/37/"
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# Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

The path: the noble eightfold path, the factors of awakening, mindfulness meditation, breathing, and the first teaching, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 37. Searches · SN 47.85–94

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/37/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/37/#p-N

[¶0] SN 47.85–94 · Searches, Etc.

> Pali: SN 47.85–94 · Esanādisutta

[¶1] “Mendicants, there are these three searches. What three? The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path. …”

> Pali: “Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā. Katamā tisso? Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā”ti

[¶2] (Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)

> Pali: vitthāretabbaṁ.

[¶3] > Pali: Esanāvaggo navamo.

[¶4] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶5] Searches, discriminations, defilements,
states of existence, three kinds of suffering,
barrenness, stains, and troubles,
feelings, craving, and thirst.

> Pali: Esanā vidhā āsavo,
Bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso;
Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca,
Vedanā taṇhā tasināya cāti.