{"id":"an4.23","title":"The World","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.23","title":"The World","units":[{"id":"an4.23:0","sourceIds":["an4.23:0.1","an4.23:0.2","an4.23:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.23\n3. Uruvelavagga\nLokasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.23\n3. At Uruvelā\nThe World"}},{"id":"an4.23:1","sourceIds":["an4.23:1.1","an4.23:1.2","an4.23:1.3","an4.23:1.4","an4.23:1.5","an4.23:1.6","an4.23:1.7","an4.23:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Loko, bhikkhave, tathāgatena abhisambuddho.\nLokasmā tathāgato visaṁyutto.\nLokasamudayo, bhikkhave, tathāgatena abhisambuddho.\nLokasamudayo tathāgatassa pahīno.\nLokanirodho, bhikkhave, tathāgatena abhisambuddho.\nLokanirodho tathāgatassa sacchikato.\nLokanirodhagāminī paṭipadā, bhikkhave, tathāgatena abhisambuddhā.\nLokanirodhagāminī paṭipadā tathāgatassa bhāvitā.","en":"“Mendicants, the world has been understood by the Realized One;\nand he is detached from the world.\nThe origin of the world has been understood by the Realized One;\nand he has given up the origin of the world.\nThe cessation of the world has been understood by the Realized One;\nand he has realized the cessation of the world.\nThe practice that leads to the cessation of the world has been understood by the Realized One;\nand he has developed the practice that leads to the cessation of the world."}},{"id":"an4.23:2","sourceIds":["an4.23:2.1","an4.23:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ, bhikkhave, sadevakassa lokassa samārakassa sabrahmakassa sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya diṭṭhaṁ sutaṁ mutaṁ viññātaṁ pattaṁ pariyesitaṁ anuvicaritaṁ manasā, sabbaṁ taṁ tathāgatena abhisambuddhaṁ.\nTasmā ‘tathāgato’ti vuccati.","en":"In this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—whatever is seen, heard, thought, known, attained, sought, and explored by the mind, all that has been understood by the Realized One.\nThat’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’."}},{"id":"an4.23:3","sourceIds":["an4.23:3.1","an4.23:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yañca, bhikkhave, rattiṁ tathāgato anuttaraṁ sammāsambodhiṁ abhisambujjhati yañca rattiṁ anupādisesāya nibbānadhātuyā parinibbāyati, yaṁ etasmiṁ antare bhāsati lapati niddisati sabbaṁ taṁ tatheva hoti, no aññathā.\nTasmā ‘tathāgato’ti vuccati.","en":"From the night when the Realized One awakens to the supreme perfect awakening until the night he becomes fully extinguished—in the element of extinguishment with no residue—everything he speaks, says, and expresses is real, not otherwise.\nThat’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’."}},{"id":"an4.23:4","sourceIds":["an4.23:4.1","an4.23:4.2","an4.23:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathāvādī, bhikkhave, tathāgato tathākārī, yathākārī tathāvādī.\nIti yathāvādī tathākārī, yathākārī tathāvādī.\nTasmā ‘tathāgato’ti vuccati.","en":"The Realized One does as he says, and says as he does.\nSince this is so,\nthat’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’."}},{"id":"an4.23:5","sourceIds":["an4.23:5.1","an4.23:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sadevake, bhikkhave, loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya tathāgato abhibhū anabhibhūto aññadatthu daso vasavattī.\nTasmā ‘tathāgato’ti vuccati.","en":"In this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—the Realized One is the vanquisher, the unvanquished, the universal seer, the wielder of power.\nThat’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’."}},{"id":"an4.23:6","sourceIds":["an4.23:6.1","an4.23:6.2","an4.23:6.3","an4.23:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaṁ lokaṁ abhiññāya,\nsabbaṁ loke yathātathaṁ;\nSabbaṁ lokaṁ visaṁyutto,\nsabbaloke anūpayo.","en":"Directly knowing the whole world as it is,\nand everything in it,\nhe is detached from the whole world,\nuninvolved with the whole world."}},{"id":"an4.23:7","sourceIds":["an4.23:7.1","an4.23:7.2","an4.23:7.3","an4.23:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sa ve sabbābhibhū dhīro,\nsabbaganthappamocano;\nPhuṭṭha’ssa paramā santi,\nnibbānaṁ akutobhayaṁ.","en":"That attentive one is the vanquisher of all\nwho is released from all ties.\nHe has reached ultimate peace:\nextinguishment, fearing nothing from any quarter."}},{"id":"an4.23:8","sourceIds":["an4.23:8.1","an4.23:8.2","an4.23:8.3","an4.23:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Esa khīṇāsavo buddho,\nanīgho chinnasaṁsayo;\nSabbakammakkhayaṁ patto,\nvimutto upadhisaṅkhaye.","en":"He is the Buddha, with defilements ended,\nuntroubled, with doubts cut off.\nHe has attained the end of all deeds,\nfreed with the ending of attachments."}},{"id":"an4.23:9","sourceIds":["an4.23:9.1","an4.23:9.2","an4.23:9.3","an4.23:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Esa so bhagavā buddho,\nesa sīho anuttaro;\nSadevakassa lokassa,\nbrahmacakkaṁ pavattayī.","en":"That Blessed One is the Buddha,\nhe is the supreme lion,\nin all the world with its gods,\nhe turns the divine wheel."}},{"id":"an4.23:10","sourceIds":["an4.23:10.1","an4.23:10.2","an4.23:10.3","an4.23:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iti devā manussā ca,\nye buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gatā;\nSaṅgamma taṁ namassanti,\nmahantaṁ vītasāradaṁ.","en":"And so those gods and humans,\nwho have gone to the Buddha for refuge,\ncome together and revere him,\ngreat of heart and intrepid:"}},{"id":"an4.23:11","sourceIds":["an4.23:11.1","an4.23:11.2","an4.23:11.3","an4.23:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Danto damayataṁ seṭṭho,\nsanto samayataṁ isi;\nMutto mocayataṁ aggo,\ntiṇṇo tārayataṁ varo.","en":"‘Tamed, he is the best of tamers,\npeaceful, he is the seer among the peaceful,\nliberated, he is the foremost of liberators,\ncrossed over, he is the most excellent of guides across.’"}},{"id":"an4.23:12","sourceIds":["an4.23:12.1","an4.23:12.2","an4.23:12.3","an4.23:12.4","an4.23:12.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iti hetaṁ namassanti,\nmahantaṁ vītasāradaṁ;\nSadevakasmiṁ lokasmiṁ,\nnatthi me paṭipuggalo”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"And so they revere him,\ngreat of heart and intrepid.\nIn the world with its gods,\nhe has no rival.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.23/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}