Ādittapariyāyasutta untranslated

Ādittapariyāyasutta. The name given to the discourse preached by Gotama Buddha at Gayāsīsa in Gayā, after his conversion of the Tebhātikajaṭilā (Uruvelā Kassapa, Nadī Kassapa and Gayā Kassapa).

Everything is burning: the eye, the eye-consciousness (cakkhuviññāṇa), and the contact of the eye with objects (cakkhusamphassa), and the sensations that arise therefrom. It is the same with the other senses: they are aflame with lust, anger, ignorance and the anxieties of birth, decay, death, etc.; knowing this, the follower of the Noble Eightfold Path feels revulsion towards them and divests himself of passion for them and ultimately attains supreme freedom.

At the end of the discourse the thousand monks, erstwhile jaṭilas, who had been listening, became Arahants (Vin.i.34-5; Ja.i.82; iv.180).

It is said that the Ādittapariyāya was preached on the Piṭṭhipāsāṇa at Gayāsīsa (AN­a.i.166; Thag­a.i.435). This is the third recorded address of the Buddha.

It is also called the Ādittasutta (see Ādittasutta 3).