{"id":"sn9.2","title":"Application","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.2","title":"Application","units":[{"id":"sn9.2:0","sourceIds":["sn9.2:0.1","sn9.2:0.2","sn9.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.2\n1. Vanavagga\nUpaṭṭhānasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.2\n1. In the Woods\nApplication"}},{"id":"sn9.2:1","sourceIds":["sn9.2:1.1","sn9.2:1.2","sn9.2:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro bhikkhu kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena so bhikkhu divāvihāragato supati.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno anukampikā atthakāmā taṁ bhikkhuṁ saṁvejetukāmā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.\nNow at that time that mendicant went for the day’s meditation, but fell asleep.\nThe deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.2:2","sourceIds":["sn9.2:2.1","sn9.2:2.2","sn9.2:2.3","sn9.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Uṭṭhehi bhikkhu kiṁ sesi,\nko attho supitena te;\nĀturassa hi kā niddā,\nsallaviddhassa ruppato.","en":"“Get up, mendicant! Why lie down?\nWhat’s the point in sleeping?\nHow can the afflicted slumber,\ninflicted by an arrow strike?"}},{"id":"sn9.2:3","sourceIds":["sn9.2:3.1","sn9.2:3.2","sn9.2:3.3","sn9.2:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yāya saddhāya pabbajito,\nagārasmānagāriyaṁ;\nTameva saddhaṁ brūhehi,\nmā niddāya vasaṁ gamī”ti.","en":"You should amplify the faith\nthat led you to go forth\nfrom the lay life to homelessness.\nDon’t fall under the sway of slumber.”"}},{"id":"sn9.2:4","sourceIds":["sn9.2:4.1","sn9.2:4.2","sn9.2:4.3","sn9.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aniccā addhuvā kāmā,\nyesu mandova mucchito;\nBaddhesu muttaṁ asitaṁ,\nkasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.","en":"“Sensual pleasures are impermanent and unstable,\nbut dullards still fall for them.\nAmong those who are bound, they’re free and unattached:\nwhy bother a renunciate?"}},{"id":"sn9.2:5","sourceIds":["sn9.2:5.1","sn9.2:5.2","sn9.2:5.3","sn9.2:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Chandarāgassa vinayā,\navijjāsamatikkamā;\nTaṁ ñāṇaṁ paramodānaṁ,\nkasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.","en":"By removing desire and greed,\nby going beyond ignorance,\nthat knowledge has been perfectly cleansed:\nwhy bother a renunciate?"}},{"id":"sn9.2:6","sourceIds":["sn9.2:6.1","sn9.2:6.2","sn9.2:6.3","sn9.2:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Chetvā avijjaṁ vijjāya,\nāsavānaṁ parikkhayā;\nAsokaṁ anupāyāsaṁ,\nkasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.","en":"By breaking ignorance with knowledge,\nby the ending of defilements,\nthey’re sorrowless, unstressed:\nwhy bother a renunciate?"}},{"id":"sn9.2:7","sourceIds":["sn9.2:7.1","sn9.2:7.2","sn9.2:7.3","sn9.2:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āraddhavīriyaṁ pahitattaṁ,\nNiccaṁ daḷhaparakkamaṁ;\nNibbānaṁ abhikaṅkhantaṁ,\nKasmā pabbajitaṁ tape”ti.","en":"Energetic, resolute,\nalways staunchly vigorous,\naspiring to extinguishment:\nwhy bother a renunciate?”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.2/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."}