Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

3: The Book of the Threes

125. Gotamaka

0 Source Vesali.

1 At one time the Auspicious One dwelled in Vesali at the Gotamaka Shrine. At that place the Auspicious One addressed the bhikkhus: “Bhikkhus.” “Bhante,” those bhikkhus replied to the Auspicious One. The Auspicious One said this:

2 O bhikkhus, I teach the Dhamma with higher knowlege, not without higher knowlege. O bhikkhus, I teach the Dhamma with [root] cause, not without [root] cause. O bhikkhus, I teach the Dhamma with miraculous [results], not without miraculous [results].

3 That for you, O bhikkhus, the Dhamma is taught with higher knowlege, not without higher knowlege, taught with [root] cause, not without [root] cause, taught with miraculous [results], not without miraculous [results], my advice should be acted upon, my instructions should be acted upon.

4 Now this is enough, O bhikkhus, for you to be joyful, enough for you to be delighted, enough for you to be elated [thus:] “The Auspicious One is rightly self-awakened, the Dhamma is well-proclaimed by the Auspicious One, the sangha has entered upon the right path.”

5 This is what the Auspicious One said. Delighted, those bhikkhus rejoiced in the Auspicious One's words. “And while this exposition was being expounded, the ten thousand world system quaked.”

0 vesāli nidānaṃ

1 ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā vesāliyaṃ viharati gotamake cetiye. tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi bhikkhavo'ti. bhadante'ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṃ. bhagavā etadavoca:

2 abhiññāyā'haṃ bhikkhave dhammaṃ desemi no anabhiññāya. sanidānā'haṃ bhikkhave dhammaṃ desemi no anidānaṃ. sappāṭihāriyā'haṃ bhikkhave dhammaṃ desemi no appāṭihāriyaṃ.

3 tassa mayhaṃ bhikkhave abhiññāya dhammaṃ desayato no anabhiññāya, sanidānaṃ dhammaṃ desayato no anidānaṃ, sappāṭihāriyaṃ dhammaṃ desayato no appāṭihāriyaṃ, karaṇīyo ovādo karaṇīyā anusāsanī.

4 alañca pana vo bhikkhave tuṭṭhiyā, alaṃ attamanatāya, alaṃ somanassāya "sammāsambuddho bhagavā, svākkhāto bhagavatā dhammo, supaṭipanno saṅgho"ti.

5 idamavoca bhagavā. attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṃ abhinanduṃ. imasmiñca pana veyyākaraṇasmiṃ bhaññamāne sahassī lokadhātu akampitthā'ti.