{"id":"sn8.1","title":"Renounced","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn8.1","title":"Renounced","units":[{"id":"sn8.1:0","sourceIds":["sn8.1:0.1","sn8.1:0.2","sn8.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 8.1\n1. Vaṅgīsavagga\nNikkhantasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 8.1\n1. With Vaṅgīsa\nRenounced"}},{"id":"sn8.1:1","sourceIds":["sn8.1:1.1","sn8.1:1.2","sn8.1:1.3","sn8.1:1.4","sn8.1:1.5","sn8.1:1.6","sn8.1:1.7","sn8.1:1.8","sn8.1:1.9","sn8.1:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā vaṅgīso āḷaviyaṁ viharati aggāḷave cetiye āyasmatā nigrodhakappena upajjhāyena saddhiṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā vaṅgīso navako hoti acirapabbajito ohiyyako vihārapālo.\nAtha kho sambahulā itthiyo samalaṅkaritvā yena aggāḷavako ārāmo tenupasaṅkamiṁsu vihārapekkhikāyo.\nAtha kho āyasmato vaṅgīsassa tā itthiyo disvā anabhirati uppajjati, rāgo cittaṁ anuddhaṁseti.\nAtha kho āyasmato vaṅgīsassa etadahosi:\n“alābhā vata me, na vata me lābhā; dulladdhaṁ vata me, na vata me suladdhaṁ;\nyassa me anabhirati uppannā, rāgo cittaṁ anuddhaṁseti, taṁ kutettha labbhā, yaṁ me paro anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādeyya.\nYannūnāhaṁ attanāva attano anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādeyyan”ti.\nAtha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso attanāva attano anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādetvā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time Venerable Vaṅgīsa was staying near Āḷavī, at Āḷavī’s premier shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa.\nNow at that time Vaṅgīsa was junior, recently gone forth. He had been left behind to look after the dwelling.\nThen several women dressed in all their finery went to the monastery at Āḷavī’s premier shrine in order to inspect the dwelling.\nWhen Vaṅgīsa saw them he became dissatisfied, with lust infecting his mind.\nThen he thought,\n“It’s my loss, my misfortune,\nthat I’ve become dissatisfied, with lust infecting my mind. How is it possible for someone else to dispel my discontent and give rise to satisfaction?\nWhy don’t I do it myself?”\nThen, on the occasion of dispelling his own discontent and giving rise to satisfaction, he recited these verses:"}},{"id":"sn8.1:2","sourceIds":["sn8.1:2.1","sn8.1:2.2","sn8.1:2.3","sn8.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nikkhantaṁ vata maṁ santaṁ,\nagārasmānagāriyaṁ;\nVitakkā upadhāvanti,\npagabbhā kaṇhato ime.","en":"“Now that I’ve renounced\nthe lay life for homelessness,\nI’m overrun\nby the rude thoughts of the Dark One."}},{"id":"sn8.1:3","sourceIds":["sn8.1:3.1","sn8.1:3.2","sn8.1:3.3","sn8.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Uggaputtā mahissāsā,\nsikkhitā daḷhadhammino;\nSamantā parikireyyuṁ,\nsahassaṁ apalāyinaṁ.","en":"Even if a thousand warrior chiefs and great archers,\nwell trained, with strong bows,\nwere to completely surround me;\nI would never flee."}},{"id":"sn8.1:4","sourceIds":["sn8.1:4.1","sn8.1:4.2","sn8.1:4.3","sn8.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sacepi etato bhiyyo,\nāgamissanti itthiyo;\nNeva maṁ byādhayissanti,\ndhamme samhi patiṭṭhitaṁ.","en":"And even if women come,\nmany more than that,\nthey won’t bother me,\nfor I stand firm in the teaching."}},{"id":"sn8.1:5","sourceIds":["sn8.1:5.1","sn8.1:5.2","sn8.1:5.3","sn8.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sakkhī hi me sutaṁ etaṁ,\nbuddhassādiccabandhuno;\nNibbānagamanaṁ maggaṁ,\ntattha me nirato mano.","en":"I heard with my own ears\nfrom the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun,\nabout the path going to extinguishment;\nthat’s what delights my mind."}},{"id":"sn8.1:6","sourceIds":["sn8.1:6.1","sn8.1:6.2","sn8.1:6.3","sn8.1:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evañce maṁ viharantaṁ,\npāpima upagacchasi;\nTathā maccu karissāmi,\nna me maggampi dakkhasī”ti.","en":"Wicked One, if you come near me\nas I meditate like this,\nI’ll make sure that you, Death,\nwon’t even see the path I take.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.1/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."}