{"id":"sn10.3","title":"With Spiky","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn10.3","title":"With Spiky","units":[{"id":"sn10.3:0","sourceIds":["sn10.3:0.1","sn10.3:0.2","sn10.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 10.3\n1. Indakavagga\nSūcilomasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 10.3\n1. With Indaka\nWith Spiky"}},{"id":"sn10.3:1","sourceIds":["sn10.3:1.1","sn10.3:1.2","sn10.3:1.3","sn10.3:1.4","sn10.3:1.5","sn10.3:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā gayāyaṁ viharati ṭaṅkitamañce sūcilomassa yakkhassa bhavane.\nTena kho pana samayena kharo ca yakkho sūcilomo ca yakkho bhagavato avidūre atikkamanti.\nAtha kho kharo yakkho sūcilomaṁ yakkhaṁ etadavoca:\n“eso samaṇo”ti.\n“Neso samaṇo, samaṇako eso.\nYāva jānāmi yadi vā so samaṇo yadi vā pana so samaṇako”ti.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Gayā on the cut-stone ledge in the haunt of Spiky the native spirit.\nNow at that time the native spirits Shaggy and Spiky were passing by not far from the Buddha.\nSo Shaggy said to Spiky,\n“That’s an ascetic.”\n“That’s no ascetic, he’s a faker!\nI’ll soon find out whether he’s an ascetic or a faker.”"}},{"id":"sn10.3:2","sourceIds":["sn10.3:2.1","sn10.3:2.2","sn10.3:2.3","sn10.3:2.4","sn10.3:2.5","sn10.3:2.6","sn10.3:2.7","sn10.3:2.8","sn10.3:2.9","sn10.3:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho sūcilomo yakkho yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato kāyaṁ upanāmesi.\nAtha kho bhagavā kāyaṁ apanāmesi.\nAtha kho sūcilomo yakkho bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“bhāyasi maṁ, samaṇā”ti?\n“Na khvāhaṁ taṁ, āvuso, bhāyāmi;\napi ca te samphasso pāpako”ti.\n“Pañhaṁ taṁ, samaṇa, pucchissāmi.\nSace me na byākarissasi, cittaṁ vā te khipissāmi, hadayaṁ vā te phālessāmi, pādesu vā gahetvā pāragaṅgāya khipissāmī”ti.\n“Na khvāhaṁ taṁ, āvuso, passāmi sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya, yo me cittaṁ vā khipeyya hadayaṁ vā phāleyya pādesu vā gahetvā pāragaṅgāya khipeyya;\napi ca tvaṁ, āvuso, puccha yadā kaṅkhasī”ti. (…)","en":"Then Spiky went up to the Buddha and leaned up against his body,\nbut the Buddha pulled away.\nThen Spiky said to the Buddha,\n“Are you afraid, ascetic?”\n“No, respectable sir, I’m not afraid.\nBut your touch is nasty.”\n“I will ask you a question, ascetic.\nIf you don’t answer me, I’ll drive you insane, or explode your heart, or grab you by the feet and throw you to the far shore of the Ganges!”\n“I don’t see anyone in this world with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans who could do that to me.\nBut anyway, ask what you wish.”"}},{"id":"sn10.3:3","sourceIds":["sn10.3:3.1","sn10.3:3.2","sn10.3:3.3","sn10.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rāgo ca doso ca kutonidānā,\nAratī ratī lomahaṁso kutojā;\nKuto samuṭṭhāya manovitakkā,\nKumārakā dhaṅkamivossajantī”ti.","en":"“Where do greed and hate come from?\nFrom where spring discontent, desire, and terror?\nWhere do the mind’s thoughts originate,\nlike a crow let loose by boys.”"}},{"id":"sn10.3:4","sourceIds":["sn10.3:4.1","sn10.3:4.2","sn10.3:4.3","sn10.3:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rāgo ca doso ca itonidānā,\nAratī ratī lomahaṁso itojā;\nIto samuṭṭhāya manovitakkā,\nKumārakā dhaṅkamivossajanti.","en":"“Greed and hate come from here;\nfrom here spring discontent, desire, and terror;\nhere’s where the mind’s thoughts originate,\nlike a crow let loose by boys."}},{"id":"sn10.3:5","sourceIds":["sn10.3:5.1","sn10.3:5.2","sn10.3:5.3","sn10.3:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Snehajā attasambhūtā,\nnigrodhasseva khandhajā;\nPuthū visattā kāmesu,\nmāluvāva vitatā vane.","en":"Born of affection, originating in oneself,\nlike prop roots sprouting from a banyan;\nthe many kinds of attachment to sensual pleasures\nare like camel’s foot creeper creeping through the woods."}},{"id":"sn10.3:6","sourceIds":["sn10.3:6.1","sn10.3:6.2","sn10.3:6.3","sn10.3:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye naṁ pajānanti yatonidānaṁ,\nTe naṁ vinodenti suṇohi yakkha;\nTe duttaraṁ oghamimaṁ taranti,\nAtiṇṇapubbaṁ apunabbhavāyā”ti.","en":"Those who understand where they come from\ndispel them—listen up, spirit!\nThey cross this flood so hard to cross,\nnot crossed before, so as to not be reborn.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.3/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."}