Reading guide
A sevenfold outcome, cascading toward a single end
The seven named outcomes are not presented as separate results but as a progressive sequence, each term narrowing toward the next: disillusionment (nibbidā) with what one previously found satisfying, then dispassion (virāga), cessation (nirodha), peace (upasama), direct insight (abhiññā), awakening (sambodha), and finally extinguishment (nibbāna) itself — the word “solely” (ekanta) ruling out any other possible direction this development could lead.
A colophon without ambiguity, confirmed a second time
As with SN 46.10's own colophon opening the Bojjhaṅgasaṃyutta, this vagga's own close (“Dasamaṁ,” “the tenth,” and “Gilānavaggo dutiyo,” “the Sick chapter, the second”) carries no discrepancy of the kind met repeatedly throughout SN 45 — genuinely the second vagga of this new saṃyutta, confirmed without qualification. The closing uddāna names all ten discourses in order: Living Creatures, two Sun similes; three Sick discourses; Going to the Far Shore and Missed Out; Noble and Disillusionment.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, the seven awakening factors, when developed and cultivated, lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment. What seven? The awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion, and equanimity. These seven awakening factors, when developed and cultivated, lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.”
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