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[SUTTAS 596
596. Then what is sāmaia as substance-potential (namely other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person? Sāmāia as substance-potential (namely) other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person is that which has been written on leaf and in book.
This is samaia as substance-potential (namely) other than the body of the knower and the body of the competent person. This is sāmaia as substance-potential, without scriptural knowledge. This is the samāia as substance-potential.
597. Then what is sämāia as essence? Samaia as essence is stated to be twofold, viz.
(a) with scriptural knowledge; and
(b) without scriptural knowledge. 598. Then what is sämāia as essence, with scriptural knowledge ? Sāmaia as essence, with scriptural knowledge, is the knower of the purview of the Sāmāiya (sic)-treatise and is attentive (to Samaia).
This is sămāia as essence, with scriptural knowledge.
599. Then what is sämāia as essence, without scriptural knowledge ? Sămâia as essence, without scriptural knowledge, is (given in the following verses) :
It is said by the omniscient that sāmãiya is (possible) in him whose soul is engaged in self-restraint, self-regulation and austerity //127/1
It is said by the omniscient that sämäiya is (possible) in him who is evenly disposed towards all creatures, mobile and immobile //128//
As suffering is not dear to me, so is it for all creaturesknowing (this) he does not (himself) kill, nor get killed (by others), behaves with equanimity (samamanati), (and) is therefore called samana (ascetic) //1291
There is none, among all living creatures, who is an object of hatred or attachment to him, and so he is a samana--this is yet another derivation of the word samaņa) /,130//
He who is like a serpent (having no dwelling place of his own), a mountain (unshakable in adversity), fire (having insatiable desire for acquisition of knowledge), the ocean (in depth), the firmament (being without any support), a cluster of trees (being unmoved in joy and suffering), and also like the bee (with indefinite livelihood), the deer (being in perpetual fear from the world), the earth (being
