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Saṃyutta Nikāya · Discourse 55.29

Fears and Enmities (2nd)

Dutiyabhayaverūpasantasutta — Saraṇānivagga

Setting
Sāvatthī
Speaker
The Buddha, addressing the mendicants generally
Form
A single compressed sentence, cross-referencing SN 55.28's own full content
Length
<1 minute to read
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Significance
★★★ — confirms SN 55.28's own three-part definition was also taught generally to the mendicant community, not only to the lay householder Anāthapiṇḍika

Why this discourse

Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse restates SN 55.28's own identical three-part definition — the five fears and enmities quelled, the four factors, and insight into dependent origination — but this time addressed generally to “mendicants,” entirely compressed via ellipsis, confirming the same teaching reached both the specific dying householder of SN 55.28 and the wider monastic community.

Reading guide

The same formula, a different audience

This project's own direct comparison: where SN 55.28 was addressed specifically to Anāthapiṇḍika in his own home, this discourse's own audience is the mendicants generally, confirming the identical three-part definition was not tailored uniquely to one lay disciple's own circumstance.

Key terms

bhikkhave — “mendicants” — this discourse's own general audience, differing from SN 55.28's own specific address to Anāthapiṇḍika
pañca bhayāni verāni vūpasantāni — “five fears and enmities” quelled — the first required element, unchanged from SN 55.28
cattāri sotāpattiyaṅgāni — “the four factors of stream-entry” — the second required element, unchanged
ariyo ñāyo paññāya sudiṭṭho hoti suppaṭividdho — “the noble system…clearly seen and penetrated with wisdom” — the third required element, dependent origination, elided here but given in full at SN 55.28
khīṇanirayomhi khīṇatiracchānayoni khīṇapettivisayo — “I've finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm” — the licensing formula's own opening, unchanged from SN 55.28

The text

Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source, which itself preserves the elision back to SN 55.28. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).

§1At Sāvatthī. … “Mendicants, when a noble disciple has quelled five fears and enmities, possesses the four factors of stream-entry, and has clearly seen and penetrated the noble system with wisdom, they may, if they wish, declare of themselves: ‘I’ve finished with rebirth in hell, the animal realm, and the ghost realm. I’ve finished with all places of loss, bad places, the underworld. I am a stream-enterer! I’m not liable to be reborn in the underworld, and am assured, destined for awakening.’”

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Self-check quiz

3 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.

Question 1 of 3
How does this discourse's own audience differ from SN 55.28's own?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading — a general monastic audience rather than one specific lay disciple.
Question 2 of 3
What does this discourse's own compression via ellipsis confirm?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct comparison — the identical content, compressed rather than altered.
Question 3 of 3
What does the existence of this discourse alongside SN 55.28 confirm?
Correct: A. This project's own reading of what pairing these two discourses together confirms.
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Further reading

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