{"id":"sn23.1","title":"About Māra","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn23.1","title":"About Māra","units":[{"id":"sn23.1:0","sourceIds":["sn23.1:0.1","sn23.1:0.2","sn23.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 23.1\n1. Paṭhamamāravagga\nMārasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 23.1\n1. About Māra\nAbout Māra"}},{"id":"sn23.1:1","sourceIds":["sn23.1:1.1","sn23.1:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho āyasmā rādho yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā rādho bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen Venerable Rādha went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:"}},{"id":"sn23.1:2","sourceIds":["sn23.1:2.1","sn23.1:2.2","sn23.1:2.3","sn23.1:2.4","sn23.1:2.5","sn23.1:2.6","sn23.1:2.7","sn23.1:2.8","sn23.1:2.9","sn23.1:2.10","sn23.1:2.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Māro, māro’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, bhante, māro”ti?\n“Rūpe kho, rādha, sati māro vā assa māretā vā yo vā pana mīyati.\nTasmātiha tvaṁ, rādha, rūpaṁ māroti passa, māretāti passa, mīyatīti passa, rogoti passa, gaṇḍoti passa, sallanti passa, aghanti passa, aghabhūtanti passa.\nYe naṁ evaṁ passanti te sammā passanti.\nVedanāya sati …\nsaññāya sati …\nsaṅkhāresu sati …\nviññāṇe sati māro vā assa māretā vā yo vā pana mīyati.\nTasmātiha tvaṁ, rādha, viññāṇaṁ māroti passa, māretāti passa, mīyatīti passa, rogoti passa, gaṇḍoti passa, sallanti passa, aghanti passa, aghabhūtanti passa.\nYe naṁ evaṁ passanti, te sammā passantī”ti.","en":"“Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘Māra’.\nHow is Māra defined?”\n“When there is form, Rādha, there would be Māra, or the murderer, or the murdered.\nSo you should see form as Māra, the murderer, the murdered, the diseased, the boil, the dart, the gloom, the gloominess.\nThose who see it like this see rightly.\nWhen there is feeling …\nperception …\nchoices …\nconsciousness, there may be Māra, or the murderer, or the murdered.\nSo you should see consciousness as Māra, the murderer, the murdered, the diseased, the boil, the dart, the gloom, the gloominess.\nThose who see it like this see rightly.”"}},{"id":"sn23.1:3","sourceIds":["sn23.1:3.1","sn23.1:3.2","sn23.1:3.3","sn23.1:3.4","sn23.1:3.5","sn23.1:3.6","sn23.1:3.7","sn23.1:3.8","sn23.1:3.9","sn23.1:3.10","sn23.1:3.11","sn23.1:3.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sammādassanaṁ pana, bhante, kimatthiyan”ti?\n“Sammādassanaṁ kho, rādha, nibbidatthaṁ”.\n“Nibbidā pana, bhante, kimatthiyā”ti?\n“Nibbidā kho, rādha, virāgatthā”.\n“Virāgo pana, bhante, kimatthiyo”ti?\n“Virāgo kho, rādha, vimuttattho”.\n“Vimutti pana, bhante, kimatthiyā”ti?\n“Vimutti kho, rādha, nibbānatthā”.\n“Nibbānaṁ pana, bhante, kimatthiyan”ti?\n“Accayāsi, rādha, pañhaṁ, nāsakkhi pañhassa pariyantaṁ gahetuṁ.\nNibbānogadhañhi, rādha, brahmacariyaṁ vussati, nibbānaparāyanaṁ nibbānapariyosānan”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"“But sir, what’s the purpose of seeing rightly?”\n“Disillusionment is the purpose of seeing rightly.”\n“But what’s the purpose of disillusionment?”\n“Dispassion is the purpose of disillusionment.”\n“But what’s the purpose of dispassion?”\n“Freedom is the purpose of dispassion.”\n“But what’s the purpose of freedom?”\n“Extinguishment is the purpose of freedom.”\n“But sir, what is the purpose of extinguishment?”\n“Your question goes too far, Rādha. You weren’t able to grasp the limit of questioning.\nFor extinguishment is the objective, destination, and culmination of the spiritual life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn23.1/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."}