{"id":"sn5.6","title":"With Cālā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn5.6","title":"With Cālā","units":[{"id":"sn5.6:0","sourceIds":["sn5.6:0.1","sn5.6:0.2","sn5.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.6\n1. Bhikkhunīvagga\nCālāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 5.6\n1. Nuns\nWith Cālā"}},{"id":"sn5.6:1","sourceIds":["sn5.6:1.1","sn5.6:1.2","sn5.6:1.3","sn5.6:1.4","sn5.6:1.5","sn5.6:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho cālā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…\naññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā yena cālā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā cālaṁ bhikkhuniṁ etadavoca:\n“kiṁ nu tvaṁ, bhikkhuni, na rocesī”ti?\n“Jātiṁ khvāhaṁ, āvuso, na rocemī”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen the nun Cālā robed up in the morning …\nand sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.\nThen Māra the Wicked went up to Cālā and said to her,\n“Nun, what don’t you approve of?”\n“I don’t approve of rebirth, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn5.6:2","sourceIds":["sn5.6:2.1","sn5.6:2.2","sn5.6:2.3","sn5.6:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ nu jātiṁ na rocesi,\njāto kāmāni bhuñjati;\nKo nu taṁ idamādapayi,\njātiṁ mā roca bhikkhunī”ti.","en":"“Why don’t you approve of rebirth?\nWhen you’re born, you get to enjoy sensual pleasures.\nWho put this idea in your head:\n‘Nun, don’t approve of rebirth’?”"}},{"id":"sn5.6:3","sourceIds":["sn5.6:3.1","sn5.6:3.2","sn5.6:3.3","sn5.6:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Jātassa maraṇaṁ hoti,\njāto dukkhāni phussati;\nBandhaṁ vadhaṁ pariklesaṁ,\ntasmā jātiṁ na rocaye.","en":"“Death comes to those who are born,\nwhen you’re born you undergo sufferings—\nkilling, caging, misery—\nthat’s why you shouldn’t approve of rebirth."}},{"id":"sn5.6:4","sourceIds":["sn5.6:4.1","sn5.6:4.2","sn5.6:4.3","sn5.6:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Buddho dhammamadesesi,\njātiyā samatikkamaṁ;\nSabbadukkhappahānāya,\nso maṁ sacce nivesayi.","en":"The Buddha taught me the Dhamma\nfor transcending rebirth,\nfor giving up all suffering;\nhe settled me in the truth."}},{"id":"sn5.6:5","sourceIds":["sn5.6:5.1","sn5.6:5.2","sn5.6:5.3","sn5.6:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca rūpūpagā sattā,\nye ca arūpaṭṭhāyino;\nNirodhaṁ appajānantā,\nāgantāro punabbhavan”ti.","en":"There are beings in the realm of luminous form,\nand others stuck in the formless.\nNot understanding cessation,\nthey return in future lives.”"}},{"id":"sn5.6:6","sourceIds":["sn5.6:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ cālā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Cālā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.6/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."}