{"id":"sn1.34","title":"There Are None","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.34","title":"There Are None","units":[{"id":"sn1.34:0","sourceIds":["sn1.34:0.1","sn1.34:0.2","sn1.34:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.34\n4. Satullapakāyikavagga\nNasantisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.34\n4. The Host of a Hundred Felicities\nThere Are None"}},{"id":"sn1.34:1","sourceIds":["sn1.34:1.1","sn1.34:1.2","sn1.34:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho sambahulā satullapakāyikā devatāyo abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhaṁsu.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhitā kho ekā devatā bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen, late at night, several glorious deities of the host of a hundred felicities, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side.\nStanding to one side, one deity spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn1.34:2","sourceIds":["sn1.34:2.1","sn1.34:2.2","sn1.34:2.3","sn1.34:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na santi kāmā manujesu niccā,\nSantīdha kamanīyāni yesu baddho;\nYesu pamatto apunāgamanaṁ,\nAnāgantā puriso maccudheyyā”ti.","en":"“Among mankind there are no sensual pleasures that are permanent.\nHere there are sensuous things, bound to which,\ndrunk on which, there’s no coming back.\nThat person doesn’t return from Death’s dominion.”"}},{"id":"sn1.34:3","sourceIds":["sn1.34:3.1","sn1.34:3.2","sn1.34:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Chandajaṁ aghaṁ chandajaṁ dukkhaṁ,\nChandavinayā aghavinayo;\nAghavinayā dukkhavinayo”ti.","en":"“Gloom is born of desire; suffering is born of desire;\nwhen desire is removed, gloom is removed;\nwhen gloom is removed, suffering is removed.”"}},{"id":"sn1.34:4","sourceIds":["sn1.34:4.1","sn1.34:4.2","sn1.34:4.3","sn1.34:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na te kāmā yāni citrāni loke,\nSaṅkapparāgo purisassa kāmo;\nTiṭṭhanti citrāni tatheva loke,\nAthettha dhīrā vinayanti chandaṁ.","en":"“The world’s pretty things aren’t sensual pleasures.\nGreedy intention is a person’s sensual pleasure.\nThe world’s pretty things stay just as they are,\nbut the attentive remove desire for them."}},{"id":"sn1.34:5","sourceIds":["sn1.34:5.1","sn1.34:5.2","sn1.34:5.3","sn1.34:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kodhaṁ jahe vippajaheyya mānaṁ,\nSaṁyojanaṁ sabbamatikkameyya;\nTaṁ nāmarūpasmimasajjamānaṁ,\nAkiñcanaṁ nānupatanti dukkhā.","en":"Give up anger, get rid of conceit,\nand get past all the fetters.\nSufferings don’t torment the one who has nothing,\nnot clinging to name and form."}},{"id":"sn1.34:6","sourceIds":["sn1.34:6.1","sn1.34:6.2","sn1.34:6.3","sn1.34:6.4","sn1.34:6.5","sn1.34:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pahāsi saṅkhaṁ na vimānamajjhagā,\nAcchecchi taṇhaṁ idha nāmarūpe;\nTaṁ chinnaganthaṁ anighaṁ nirāsaṁ,\nPariyesamānā nājjhagamuṁ;\nDevā manussā idha vā huraṁ vā,\nSaggesu vā sabbanivesanesū”ti.","en":"They gave up judgment without falling into conceit;\ncraving for name and form was cut off right here.\nThey cut the ties, untroubled, with no need for hope.\nThough gods and humans search for them\nin this life or the next, they never find them,\nnot in heaven nor in any abode.”"}},{"id":"sn1.34:7","sourceIds":["sn1.34:7.1","sn1.34:7.2","sn1.34:7.3","sn1.34:7.4","sn1.34:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tañce hi nāddakkhuṁ tathāvimuttaṁ,\n(iccāyasmā mogharājā)\nDevā manussā idha vā huraṁ vā;\nNaruttamaṁ atthacaraṁ narānaṁ,\nYe taṁ namassanti pasaṁsiyā te”ti.","en":"“If neither gods nor humans see one freed in this way,”\nsaid Venerable Mogharāja,\n“in this life or the next,\nare those who revere that supreme man,\nwho lives for the good of mankind, also worthy of praise?”"}},{"id":"sn1.34:8","sourceIds":["sn1.34:8.1","sn1.34:8.2","sn1.34:8.3","sn1.34:8.4","sn1.34:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pasaṁsiyā tepi bhavanti bhikkhū,\n(mogharājāti bhagavā)\nYe taṁ namassanti tathāvimuttaṁ;\nAññāya dhammaṁ vicikicchaṁ pahāya,\nSaṅgātigā tepi bhavanti bhikkhū”ti.","en":"“The mendicants who revere one freed in this way,”\nsaid the Buddha,\n“are also worthy of praise, Mogharāja.\nHaving understood the teaching and given up doubt,\nthose mendicants slip their chains.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.34/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."}