Linked Discourses 55.47 5. Overflowing Merit, With Verses With Nandiya (SN55.47)

1.1

Kapilavatthunidānaṁ.

At Kapilavatthu.

1.2

Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho nandiyaṁ sakkaṁ bhagavā etadavoca:

Seated to one side, the Buddha said to Nandiya the Sakyan:

1.3

“catūhi kho, nandiya, dhammehi samannāgato ariyasāvako sotāpanno hoti avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo.

“Nandiya, a noble disciple who has four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.

2.1

Katamehi catūhi?

What four?

2.2

Idha, nandiya, ariyasāvako buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti—

It’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …

2.3

itipi so bhagavā …pe… satthā devamanussānaṁ buddho bhagavāti.

2.4

Dhamme …pe…

the teaching …

2.5

saṅghe …pe…

the Saṅgha …

2.6

ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgato hoti akhaṇḍehi …pe… samādhisaṁvattanikehi.

And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.

2.7

Imehi kho, nandiya, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato ariyasāvako sotāpanno hoti avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo”ti.

A noble disciple who has these four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”

2.8

Sattamaṁ.