Contents

Foreword

Part 1

1. date for this sutta

2. Concentrated attention is essential

3. Proper way of listening to a sermon

4. the woman who overheard the two devas

5. Invitation by Sætægiri deva

6. Araham attribute

7. Buddha attribute

8. Hemavata’s question

9. Embarrassing to be questioned

10. Sætægiri’s answer

11. Very adorable

12. How mahÆ-karuna happened

13. FolLowers of wrong faith more pitiable

14. Q & A between king Kawrabya and Venerable RAthapala?

15. An enlightened question

16. ability to view unpleasant things as pleasant

17. Mahækassapa and a leper

Part II

18. Is He free of guilt of torture and lassitude?

19. Rude words of takkadun Kassapa

20. Is He into jhæna?

21. SÆtÆgiri’s answer

22. The bogus Buddhas

23. Nobody wants to be killed or robbed

24. Free by means of samuccheda virati

25. You wouldn’t steal if you had sympathy

26. Freedom from sin of stealing through vipassanæ

27. Freedom from sin of stealing through ariya magga

28. One prone to killing is not a Sotæpanna

29. Samatha jhæna

30. Vipassanæ Jhæna

31. Buddha into Jhæna while audience were saying “Sædhu”

32. Myanmar Sædhu and Sri Lanka Sædhu

Part III

33. Vassakæra’s slander

34. SætægirI’s answer

35. Of six kinds of speech two are permissible

36. the TWO kinds used by the Buddha

37. The attributes of Sugata

38. Hemavata’s question

39. Three kinds of micchæ di¥¥hi

40. Sætægiri’s answer

41. Also free of moha

42. Free of micchæ dithi since receiving assuring prediction

43. Tallies with the theory of “man dies and is reborn as man”

44. When did false faiths spring up?

45. Free of all moha

46. Has the eye of knowdege

47. Buddha cakkhu

48. Æsayæ-nusaya ñæ¤a

Part IV

49. Hemavata’S query

50. Three kinds of vijjæ

51. PubbenivÆsa ñæ¤a

52. Dibbacakkhu ñæ¤a

53. Dibbacakkhu can see peta spirits

54. Asavakkhaya ñæ¤a

55. Eight Vijjæ

56. Vipassanæ ñæ¤a

57. Manomayiddhi and Iddhividha ñæ¤a

58. Cetopariya ñæ¤a

59. Mætikamætæ the woman devotee who attained abhiÑÑƤa

60. No mischief near a mind-reader

61. Dibbasota ñæ¤a

62. Fifteen Cara¤a

63. One with vijjæ cara¤a is most sacred

64. YogØs here have these attributes too

65. The story of Suppabuddha

66. About lady Kæli

Part V

67. Hemavata’s question

68. Buddha’s answer

69. (a) Where the six are there loka is

70. (b) Only the six are in company

71. The eye, the sense of seeing and associated with the sight

72. The ear, the sense of seeing associated with the sound

73. The nose, the sense of smell and the smell

74. The tongue, the sense of taste and the taste

75. The body, the sense of touch and the touch

76. Mind associated with ideas

77. Tiring oneself is not necessarily attakilamatha

78. The Buddha’s admonition

79. Kæma-sukkhallika and attakilamatha differentiated

80. Samatha and Vipassanæ

81. No transgression

82. Arittha’s false notions

83. Must not transgress the area of samædhi

84. The six sense-bases make up man

85. Suffering in the six

86. Hemavata’s question

87. Giving instructions to Mælukya-putta bhikkhþ

Part VI

88. Discarding ta¤hæ occurring on the sight

89. The current of kæma; desirE

90. The current of bhava, Existence

91. The current of di¿¿hi, false beliefs

92. The current of avijjæ, ignorance

93. The first qualification of the successful swimmer

94. The second qualification

95. The third qualification

96. Don’t talk rashly about eko-dhammo

97. The Buddha’s answer

98. The past history of Hemavata and company