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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: 38 of 105
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/38/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga, section 38. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/38/"
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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.

## 38. Floods · SN 47.95–104

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/38/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/38/#p-N

[¶0] SN 47.95–104 · Higher Fetters, Etc.

> Pali: SN 47.95–104 · Uddhambhāgiyādisutta

[¶1] “Mendicants, there are five higher fetters. What five? Desire for rebirth in the realm of luminous form, desire for rebirth in the formless realm, conceit, restlessness, and ignorance. These are the five higher fetters.

> Pali: “Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, uddhambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni. Katamāni pañca? Rūparāgo, arūparāgo, māno, uddhaccaṁ, avijjā— imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañcuddhambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni.

[¶2] The four kinds of mindfulness meditation should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters.

> Pali: Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ uddhambhāgiyānaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya cattāro satipaṭṭhānā bhāvetabbā.

[¶3] What four? It’s when a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world. They meditate observing an aspect of feelings … mind … principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.

> Pali: Katame cattāro? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāye kāyānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ; vedanāsu …pe… citte …pe… dhammesu dhammānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ.

[¶4] These four kinds of mindfulness meditation should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these five higher fetters.”

> Pali: Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, pañcannaṁ uddhambhāgiyānaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ abhiññāya pariññāya parikkhayāya pahānāya ime cattāro satipaṭṭhānā bhāvetabbā”ti.

[¶5] > Pali: Dasamaṁ.

[¶6] (The Linked Discourses on Mindfulness Meditation should be told in full as in the Linked Discourses on the Path. These ten discourses correspond to SN 45.171–179, with the above as the final discourse.)

> Pali: (Yathā maggasaṁyuttaṁ tathā satipaṭṭhānasaṁyuttaṁ vitthāretabbaṁ.)

[¶7] > Pali: Oghavaggo dasamo.

[¶8] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶9] Floods, yokes, grasping,
ties, and underlying tendencies,
kinds of sensual stimulation, hindrances,
aggregates, and fetters high and low.

> Pali: Ogho yogo upādānaṁ,
ganthā anusayena ca;
Kāmaguṇā nīvaraṇā,
khandhā oruddhambhāgiyāti.

[¶10] The Linked Discourses on Mindfulness Meditation, the third section.

> Pali: Satipaṭṭhānasaṁyuttaṁ tatiyaṁ.