what is difference between sukha and sukhendriyam?

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SN 48.37 gives the most detailed answer on this, as far as the difference between sukha and sukha-indriya. https://lucid24.org/sn/sn48/sn48-037/index.html In short, sukha vedana = sukha indriya + so-manssa indriya. Meaning, 'sukha' unqualified could be referring to either or both of those.

SN 48.40 (Uppāṭika sutta) is a corrupt Theravada sutta, I do a detailed analysis here https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2021/05/sn-4840-de-corrupting-and-reconstructing.html which also contains a link to Tse Fu Kuan's excellent research PDF file, comparing SN 48.40 to a few different versions preserved in other Early Buddhist schools showing the differences.

Late Theravada had an agenda in redefining jhāna. Even if you just stay within Theravada school, you can see SN 48.40 contradicts
AN 5.176 https://lucid24.org/an/an05/an05-0176/index.html Where the Jhāna factors would not cease in the order as the corrupt SN 48.40 shows.

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“Monks, there are these five faculties. Which five? The pleasure-faculty, the pain-faculty, the happiness-faculty, the distress-faculty, the equanimity-faculty.

“And what is the pleasure-faculty? Any physical pleasure, physical comfort born of body-contact to be experienced as pleasure & comfort. That is called the pleasure-faculty.

“And what is the pain-faculty? Any physical pain, physical discomfort born of body-contact to be experienced as pain & discomfort. That is called the pain-faculty.

“And what is the happiness-faculty? Any mental pleasure, mental comfort born of intellect-contact to be experienced as pleasure & comfort. That is called the happiness -faculty.

“And what is the distress-faculty? Any mental pain, mental discomfort born of intellect-contact to be experienced as pain & discomfort. That is called the distress-faculty.

“And what is the equanimity-faculty? Anything, physical or mental, to be experienced as neither comfort nor discomfort. That is called the equanimity-faculty.

“With regard to this, the pleasure-faculty & happiness-faculty are to be seen as a feeling of pleasure. The pain-faculty & distress-faculty are to be seen as a feeling of pain. The equanimity-faculty is to be seen as a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain. Thus, by this exposition, the five are three; and the three, five.”

SN 48.38

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