Sahāyakasutta — Reader

Companions

Sahāyakasutta

At Sāvatthī. Then two mendicants who were companions, protégés of Venerable Mahākappina, went to the Buddha. The Buddha saw them coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants:

Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati. Atha kho dve bhikkhū sahāyakā āyasmato mahākappinassa saddhivihārino yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu. Addasā kho bhagavā te bhikkhū dūratova āgacchante. Disvāna bhikkhū āmantesi:

“Mendicants, do you see those monks coming who are companions, protégés of Venerable Mahākappina?” “Yes, sir.” “Those mendicants are very mighty and powerful. It’s not easy to find an attainment that they have not already attained.

“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, ete bhikkhū sahāyake āgacchante kappinassa saddhivihārino”ti? “Evaṁ, bhante”. “Ete kho te bhikkhū mahiddhikā mahānubhāvā. Na ca sā samāpatti sulabharūpā, yā tehi bhikkhūhi asamāpannapubbā.

And they’ve realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. They live having achieved with their own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.” That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: “These companion mendicants

Yassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti. Idamavoca bhagavā. Idaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā: “Sahāyāvatime bhikkhū,

have been together for a long time. The true teaching has brought them together, the teaching proclaimed by the Buddha. They’ve been well trained by Kappina

cirarattaṁ sametikā; Sameti nesaṁ saddhammo, dhamme buddhappavedite. Suvinītā kappinena,

in the teaching proclaimed by the Noble One. They bear their final body, having vanquished Māra with his legions.”

dhamme ariyappavedite; Dhārenti antimaṁ dehaṁ, jetvā māraṁ savāhinin”ti. Dvādasamaṁ.

Bhikkhuvaggo paṭhamo. Tassuddānaṁ Kolito upatisso ca, ghaṭo cāpi pavuccati;

Navo sujāto bhaddi ca, visākho nando tisso ca; Theranāmo ca kappino, sahāyena ca dvādasāti.

The Linked Discourses on monks are complete.

Bhikkhusaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ. Nidānavaggo dutiyo. Tassuddānaṁ Nidānābhisamayadhātu,

anamataggena kassapaṁ; Sakkārarāhulalakkhaṇo, opammabhikkhunā vaggo. Dutiyo tena pavuccatīti.

The Book of Causality is finished.

Nidānavaggasaṁyuttapāḷi niṭṭhitā.