Reading guide
The matrix complete
With this discourse, all six cells of this vagga's own closing grid are filled: sāmañña, brahmañña, and brahmacariya, each paired with fruits and with goal, confirmed by reading all six discourses (SN 45.35–40) together — a genuinely systematic design, not six loosely related restatements.
This vagga's own quiet close
Following this discourse's own genuinely translated content, the root Pāli carries this vagga's own closing colophon (“Paṭipattivaggo catuttho,” “Paṭipattivagga is the fourth [vagga]”) and an untranslated meta-uddāna naming all ten of its own discourses in verse — described here rather than quoted, since this content is left untranslated in Sujato's own English.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the spiritual path and the goal of the spiritual path. Listen … And what is the spiritual path? It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. This is called the spiritual path. And what is the goal of the spiritual path? The ending of greed, hate, and delusion. This is called the goal of the spiritual path.”
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