{"id":"sn4.20","title":"Ruling","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.20","title":"Ruling","units":[{"id":"sn4.20:0","sourceIds":["sn4.20:0.1","sn4.20:0.2","sn4.20:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.20\n2. Dutiyavagga\nRajjasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.20\n2. Rule\nRuling"}},{"id":"sn4.20:1","sourceIds":["sn4.20:1.1","sn4.20:1.2","sn4.20:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā kosalesu viharati himavantapadese araññakuṭikāyaṁ.\nAtha kho bhagavato rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n“sakkā nu kho rajjaṁ kāretuṁ ahanaṁ aghātayaṁ ajinaṁ ajāpayaṁ asocaṁ asocāpayaṁ dhammenā”ti?","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kosalans, in a wilderness hut on the slopes of the Himalayas.\nThen as he was in private retreat this thought came to his mind,\n“I wonder if it’s possible to rule legitimately, without killing or having someone kill for you; without conquering or having someone conquer for you; without sorrowing or causing sorrow?”"}},{"id":"sn4.20:2","sourceIds":["sn4.20:2.1","sn4.20:2.2","sn4.20:2.3","sn4.20:2.4","sn4.20:2.5","sn4.20:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā bhagavato cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“kāretu, bhante, bhagavā rajjaṁ, kāretu, sugato, rajjaṁ ahanaṁ aghātayaṁ ajinaṁ ajāpayaṁ asocaṁ asocāpayaṁ dhammenā”ti.\n“Kiṁ pana me tvaṁ, pāpima, passasi yaṁ maṁ tvaṁ evaṁ vadesi:\n‘kāretu, bhante, bhagavā rajjaṁ, kāretu sugato, rajjaṁ ahanaṁ aghātayaṁ ajinaṁ ajāpayaṁ asocaṁ asocāpayaṁ dhammenā’”ti?\n“Bhagavatā kho, bhante, cattāro iddhipādā bhāvitā bahulīkatā yānīkatā vatthukatā anuṭṭhitā paricitā susamāraddhā.\nĀkaṅkhamāno ca, bhante, bhagavā himavantaṁ pabbatarājaṁ suvaṇṇaṁ tveva adhimucceyya suvaṇṇañca panassā”ti.","en":"And then Māra the Wicked, knowing the Buddha’s train of thought, went up to him and said,\n“Rule, Blessed One! Rule, Holy One! Rule legitimately, without killing or having someone kill for you; without conquering or having someone conquer for you; without sorrowing or causing sorrow!”\n“But what do you see, Wicked One, that you say this to me?”\n“The Blessed One, sir, has developed and cultivated the four bases for psychic power, made them a vehicle and a basis, kept them up, consolidated them, and properly implemented them.\nIf he wished, the Blessed One need only determine that the Himalaya, king of mountains, was gold, and it would turn into gold.”"}},{"id":"sn4.20:3","sourceIds":["sn4.20:3.1","sn4.20:3.2","sn4.20:3.3","sn4.20:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pabbatassa suvaṇṇassa,\njātarūpassa kevalo;\nDvittāva nālamekassa,\niti vidvā samañcare.","en":"“Take a golden mountain,\nentirely of native gold, and double it—\nit’s still not enough for one!\nKnowing this, live a moral life."}},{"id":"sn4.20:4","sourceIds":["sn4.20:4.1","sn4.20:4.2","sn4.20:4.3","sn4.20:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo dukkhamaddakkhi yatonidānaṁ,\nKāmesu so jantu kathaṁ nameyya;\nUpadhiṁ viditvā saṅgoti loke,\nTasseva jantu vinayāya sikkhe”ti.","en":"When a personage has seen where suffering comes from\nhow could they incline toward sensual pleasures?\nRealizing that attachment is a chain in the world,\na personage would train to remove it.”"}},{"id":"sn4.20:5","sourceIds":["sn4.20:5.1","sn4.20:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.\nDutiyo vaggo.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}},{"id":"sn4.20:6","sourceIds":["sn4.20:6.0","sn4.20:6.1","sn4.20:6.2","sn4.20:6.3","sn4.20:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nPāsāṇo sīho sakalikaṁ,\nPatirūpañca mānasaṁ;\nPattaṁ āyatanaṁ piṇḍaṁ,\nKassakaṁ rajjena te dasāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.20/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."}