{"id":"sn23.11","title":"About Māra","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn23.11","title":"About Māra","units":[{"id":"sn23.11:0","sourceIds":["sn23.11:0.1","sn23.11:0.2","sn23.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 23.11\n2. Dutiyamāravagga\nMārasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 23.11\n2. About Māra (2nd)\nAbout Māra"}},{"id":"sn23.11:1","sourceIds":["sn23.11:1.1","sn23.11:1.2","sn23.11:1.3","sn23.11:1.4","sn23.11:1.5","sn23.11:1.6","sn23.11:1.7","sn23.11:1.8","sn23.11:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā rādho bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘māro, māro’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKatamo nu kho, bhante, māro”ti?\n“Rūpaṁ kho, rādha, māro, vedanā māro, saññā māro, saṅkhārā māro, viññāṇaṁ māro.\nEvaṁ passaṁ, rādha, sutavā ariyasāvako rūpasmimpi nibbindati, vedanāyapi nibbindati, saññāyapi nibbindati, saṅkhāresupi nibbindati, viññāṇasmimpi nibbindati.\nNibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati. Vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.\n‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nSeated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, they speak of ‘Māra’.\nHow is Māra defined?”\n“Rādha, form is Māra, feeling is Māra, perception is Māra, choices are Māra, consciousness is Māra.\nSeeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.\nBeing disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.\nThey understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn23.11/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."}