{"id":"sn4.1","title":"Mortification","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.1","title":"Mortification","units":[{"id":"sn4.1:0","sourceIds":["sn4.1:0.1","sn4.1:0.2","sn4.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.1\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nTapokammasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.1\n1. Lifespan\nMortification"}},{"id":"sn4.1:1","sourceIds":["sn4.1:1.1","sn4.1:1.2","sn4.1:1.3","sn4.1:1.4","sn4.1:1.5","sn4.1:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā uruvelāyaṁ viharati najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhamūle paṭhamābhisambuddho.\nAtha kho bhagavato rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n“mutto vatamhi tāya dukkarakārikāya.\nSādhu mutto vatamhi tāya anatthasaṁhitāya dukkarakārikāya.\nSādhu vatamhi mutto bodhiṁ samajjhagan”ti.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the root of the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.\nThen as he was in private retreat this thought came to his mind,\n“I am truly freed from that grueling work!\nThank goodness I’m freed from that pointless grueling work.\nThank goodness I’m freed and have attained awakening.”"}},{"id":"sn4.1:2","sourceIds":["sn4.1:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā bhagavato cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"And then Māra the Wicked, knowing the Buddha’s train of thought, went up to him and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.1:3","sourceIds":["sn4.1:3.1","sn4.1:3.2","sn4.1:3.3","sn4.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tapokammā apakkamma,\nyena sujjhanti māṇavā;\nAsuddho maññasi suddho,\nsuddhimaggā aparaddho”ti.","en":"“You’ve left the practice of mortification\nby which sons of men purify themselves.\nYou’re impure, but think yourself pure;\nyou’ve strayed from the path of purity.”"}},{"id":"sn4.1:4","sourceIds":["sn4.1:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.1:5","sourceIds":["sn4.1:5.1","sn4.1:5.2","sn4.1:5.3","sn4.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anatthasaṁhitaṁ ñatvā,\nyaṁ kiñci amaraṁ tapaṁ;\nSabbaṁ natthāvahaṁ hoti,\nphiyārittaṁva dhammani.","en":"“I realized that it’s pointless;\nall that endless mortification\nis as futile\nas oars and rudder on dry land."}},{"id":"sn4.1:6","sourceIds":["sn4.1:6.1","sn4.1:6.2","sn4.1:6.3","sn4.1:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sīlaṁ samādhi paññañca,\nMaggaṁ bodhāya bhāvayaṁ;\nPattosmi paramaṁ suddhiṁ,\nNihato tvamasi antakā”ti.","en":"Ethics, immersion, and wisdom:\nby developing this path to awakening\nI attained ultimate purity.\nYou’re beaten, terminator!”"}},{"id":"sn4.1:7","sourceIds":["sn4.1:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti, dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.1/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."}