{"id":"iti14","title":"The Shroud of Ignorance","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti14","title":"The Shroud of Ignorance","units":[{"id":"iti14:0","sourceIds":["iti14:0.1","iti14:0.2","iti14:0.3","iti14:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 14\nEkakanipāta\nDutiyavagga\nAvijjānīvaraṇasutta","en":"So It Was Said 14\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Two\nThe Shroud of Ignorance"}},{"id":"iti14:1","sourceIds":["iti14:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti14:2","sourceIds":["iti14:2.1","iti14:2.2","iti14:2.3","iti14:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nāhaṁ, bhikkhave, aññaṁ ekanīvaraṇampi samanupassāmi yena nīvaraṇena nivutā pajā dīgharattaṁ sandhāvanti saṁsaranti yathayidaṁ, bhikkhave, avijjānīvaraṇaṁ.\nAvijjānīvaraṇena hi, bhikkhave, nivutā pajā dīgharattaṁ sandhāvanti saṁsarantī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, I do not see a single shroud, shrouded by which people wander and transmigrate for a long time like the shroud of ignorance.\nShrouded by ignorance, people wander and transmigrate for a long time.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti14:3","sourceIds":["iti14:3.1","iti14:3.2","iti14:3.3","iti14:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthañño ekadhammopi,\nyenevaṁ nivutā pajā;\nSaṁsaranti ahorattaṁ,\nyathā mohena āvutā.","en":"“There is no other thing\nthat shrouds people like ignorance.\nVeiled by delusion,\nthey transmigrate day and night."}},{"id":"iti14:4","sourceIds":["iti14:4.1","iti14:4.2","iti14:4.3","iti14:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca mohaṁ pahantvāna,\ntamokhandhaṁ padālayuṁ;\nNa te puna saṁsaranti,\nhetu tesaṁ na vijjatī”ti.","en":"Those who have given up delusion,\nshattering the mass of darkness,\nwander no more,\nthe root is not found in them.”"}},{"id":"iti14:5","sourceIds":["iti14:5.1","iti14:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti14/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."}