Saṃyutta Nikāya
Mahāvaggo
Indriyasaṃyuttaṃ
Jarāvaggo
Pubbakoṭṭhakasuttaṃ
SN48.44
So I learned:
On one occasion the exalted one dwells at the eastern gatehouse, at Sāvatthi. OK, there the exalted one addressed senior Sāriputta:
'Do you believe, Sāriputta, the strength of confidence, cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality. Immortality is the relief; immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ...
'OK I don't go here, venerable, to the exalted one for confidence: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality, immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ... Of course for whom, venerable, it has not been familiarized, not viewed, not found out, not realised, not touched by wisdom, there one would go to others for this confidence: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality, immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ... OK and for those that, venerable, familiarized, viewed, found out, realised, touched by wisdom, there one without doubt has the reliance: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality, immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ... OK and for me this, venerable, has been familiarized, found out, realised, touched by wisdom, there I without doubt have the reliance: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality, immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ...'
'Good, good, Sāriputta, so for whoever, Sāriputta, it has not been familiarized, not viewed, not found out, not realised, not touched by wisdom, there those would go to others for this confidence: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality, immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strenght of vigour ... meditation ... concentration ... wisdom ... OK and of those that, Sāriputta, familiarized, found out, realised, touched by by wisdom, there they without doubt have the reliance: the strength of confidence cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality; immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of vigour cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality; immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of meditation cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality; immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of concentration cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality; immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping. The strength of wisdom cultivated, made a lot of, is immersed in immortality; immortality is the relief, immortality fulfils the stopping.'