{"id":"sn17.30","title":"A Mendicant With Defilements Ended","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.30","title":"A Mendicant With Defilements Ended","units":[{"id":"sn17.30:0","sourceIds":["sn17.30:0.1","sn17.30:0.2","sn17.30:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.30\n3. Tatiyavagga\nBhikkhusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.30\nChapter Three\nA Mendicant With Defilements Ended"}},{"id":"sn17.30:1","sourceIds":["sn17.30:1.1","sn17.30:1.2","sn17.30:1.3","sn17.30:1.4","sn17.30:1.5","sn17.30:1.6","sn17.30:1.7","sn17.30:1.8","sn17.30:1.9","sn17.30:1.10","sn17.30:1.11","sn17.30:1.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Yopi so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu arahaṁ khīṇāsavo tassapāhaṁ lābhasakkārasiloko antarāyāya vadāmī”ti.\nEvaṁ vutte, āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“kissa pana, bhante, khīṇāsavassa bhikkhuno lābhasakkārasiloko antarāyāyā”ti?\n“Yā hissa sā, ānanda, akuppā cetovimutti nāhaṁ tassā lābhasakkārasilokaṁ antarāyāya vadāmi.\nYe ca khvassa, ānanda, appamattassa ātāpino pahitattassa viharato diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārā adhigatā tesāhamassa lābhasakkārasilokaṁ antarāyāya vadāmi.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, ānanda, lābhasakkārasiloko kaṭuko pharuso antarāyiko anuttarassa yogakkhemassa adhigamāya.\nTasmātihānanda, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘uppannaṁ lābhasakkārasilokaṁ pajahissāma, na ca no uppanno lābhasakkārasiloko cittaṁ pariyādāya ṭhassatī’ti.\nEvañhi vo, ānanda, sikkhitabban”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nTatiyo vaggo.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, possessions, honor, and popularity are an obstacle even for a mendicant who is perfected, with defilements ended.”\nWhen he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha,\n“Sir, what do possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct for a mendicant with defilements ended?”\n“Ānanda, I don’t say that possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct the unshakable freedom of heart.\nBut I do say that possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct the achievement of blissful meditations in this life for a meditator who is diligent, keen, and resolute.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity—bitter and harsh, an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.\nSo you should train like this:\n‘We will give up arisen possessions, honor, and popularity, and we won’t let them occupy our minds.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}},{"id":"sn17.30:2","sourceIds":["sn17.30:2.0","sn17.30:2.1","sn17.30:2.2","sn17.30:2.3","sn17.30:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nMātugāmo ca kalyāṇī,\nputto ca ekadhītu ca;\nSamaṇabrāhmaṇā tīṇi,\nchavi rajju ca bhikkhunāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.30/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."}