{"id":"sn5.9","title":"With Selā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn5.9","title":"With Selā","units":[{"id":"sn5.9:0","sourceIds":["sn5.9:0.1","sn5.9:0.2","sn5.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.9\n1. Bhikkhunīvagga\nSelāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 5.9\n1. Nuns\nWith Selā"}},{"id":"sn5.9:1","sourceIds":["sn5.9:1.1","sn5.9:1.2","sn5.9:1.3","sn5.9:1.4","sn5.9:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho selā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…\naññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā selāya bhikkhuniyā bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo …pe…\nselaṁ bhikkhuniṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen the nun Selā robed up in the morning …\nand sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.\nThen Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Selā feel fear, terror, and goosebumps …\naddressed her in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.9:2","sourceIds":["sn5.9:2.1","sn5.9:2.2","sn5.9:2.3","sn5.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kenidaṁ pakataṁ bimbaṁ,\nkvanu bimbassa kārako;\nKvanu bimbaṁ samuppannaṁ,\nkvanu bimbaṁ nirujjhatī”ti.","en":"“Who created this puppet?\nWhere is its maker?\nWhere has the puppet arisen?\nAnd where does it cease?”"}},{"id":"sn5.9:3","sourceIds":["sn5.9:3.1","sn5.9:3.2","sn5.9:3.3","sn5.9:3.4","sn5.9:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho selāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“ko nu khvāyaṁ manusso vā amanusso vā gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti?\nAtha kho selāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“māro kho ayaṁ pāpimā mama bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo samādhimhā cāvetukāmo gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti.\nAtha kho selā bhikkhunī “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi paccabhāsi:","en":"Then the nun Selā thought,\n“Who’s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?”\nThen she thought,\n“This is Māra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from immersion!”\nThen Selā, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.9:4","sourceIds":["sn5.9:4.1","sn5.9:4.2","sn5.9:4.3","sn5.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nayidaṁ attakataṁ bimbaṁ,\nnayidaṁ parakataṁ aghaṁ;\nHetuṁ paṭicca sambhūtaṁ,\nhetubhaṅgā nirujjhati.","en":"“This puppet isn’t self-made,\nnor is this gloom made by another.\nIt comes to be because of a cause,\nand ceases when the cause breaks up."}},{"id":"sn5.9:5","sourceIds":["sn5.9:5.1","sn5.9:5.2","sn5.9:5.3","sn5.9:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathā aññataraṁ bījaṁ,\nkhette vuttaṁ virūhati;\nPathavīrasañcāgamma,\nsinehañca tadūbhayaṁ.","en":"It’s like a seed that’s sown\nin a field; it grows\nrelying on both the soil’s nutrients\nas well as moisture."}},{"id":"sn5.9:6","sourceIds":["sn5.9:6.1","sn5.9:6.2","sn5.9:6.3","sn5.9:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ khandhā ca dhātuyo,\ncha ca āyatanā ime;\nHetuṁ paṭicca sambhūtā,\nhetubhaṅgā nirujjhare”ti.","en":"In the same way the aggregates and elements\nand these six sense fields\ncome to be because of a cause,\nand cease when the cause breaks up.”"}},{"id":"sn5.9:7","sourceIds":["sn5.9:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ selā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Selā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.9/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."}