Reading guide
A direct structural echo of SN 48.26
Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse's own structure is nearly identical to this project's own SN 48.26: the same fivefold lens (origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, escape) and the same closing stream-enterer formula, now defining the five feeling faculties introduced at SN 48.31 rather than the six sense faculties.
A recurring structural device across this saṃyutta
This project's own running observation: the fivefold analytical lens has now recurred across both Vagga 3 and Vagga 4 of this saṃyutta, applied each time to define a disciple's own attainment with respect to whichever faculty category a given vagga treats as its own subject.
Following Vagga 3's own established pairing, to be confirmed
This project's own honest expectation, not yet confirmed: Vagga 3's own SN 48.26 was directly paired with an arahant discourse (SN 48.27) immediately following. This project will read the next discourse fresh from its own source rather than assuming this pairing repeats automatically.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity. A noble disciple comes to truly understand these five faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape. Such a noble disciple is called a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”
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