{"id":"snp4.2","title":"Eight on the Cave","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp4.2","title":"Eight on the Cave","units":[{"id":"snp4.2:0","sourceIds":["snp4.2:0.1","snp4.2:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 4.2\nGuhaṭṭhakasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 4.2\nEight on the Cave"}},{"id":"snp4.2:1","sourceIds":["snp4.2:1.1","snp4.2:1.2","snp4.2:1.3","snp4.2:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satto guhāyaṁ bahunābhichanno,\nTiṭṭhaṁ naro mohanasmiṁ pagāḷho;\nDūre vivekā hi tathāvidho so,\nKāmā hi loke na hi suppahāyā.","en":"Trapped in a cave, thickly overspread,\nsunk in delusion they stay.\nThat sort is far from seclusion,\nfor sensual pleasures in the world are not easy to give up."}},{"id":"snp4.2:2","sourceIds":["snp4.2:2.1","snp4.2:2.2","snp4.2:2.3","snp4.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Icchānidānā bhavasātabaddhā,\nTe duppamuñcā na hi aññamokkhā;\nPacchā pure vāpi apekkhamānā,\nIme va kāme purime va jappaṁ.","en":"The chains of desire, the bonds of life’s pleasures\nare hard to escape, for one cannot free another.\nLooking to the past or the future,\nthey pray for these pleasures or former ones."}},{"id":"snp4.2:3","sourceIds":["snp4.2:3.1","snp4.2:3.2","snp4.2:3.3","snp4.2:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāmesu giddhā pasutā pamūḷhā,\nAvadāniyā te visame niviṭṭhā;\nDukkhūpanītā paridevayanti,\nKiṁsū bhavissāma ito cutāse.","en":"Greedy, fixated, infatuated by sensual pleasures,\nthey are incorrigible, habitually immoral.\nWhen led to suffering they lament,\n“What will become of us when we pass away from here?”"}},{"id":"snp4.2:4","sourceIds":["snp4.2:4.1","snp4.2:4.2","snp4.2:4.3","snp4.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā hi sikkhetha idheva jantu,\nYaṁ kiñci jaññā visamanti loke;\nNa tassa hetū visamaṁ careyya,\nAppañhidaṁ jīvitamāhu dhīrā.","en":"That’s why a personage should train in this life:\nshould you know that anything in the world is wrong,\ndon’t act wrongly on account of that;\nfor the attentive say this life is short."}},{"id":"snp4.2:5","sourceIds":["snp4.2:5.1","snp4.2:5.2","snp4.2:5.3","snp4.2:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Passāmi loke pariphandamānaṁ,\nPajaṁ imaṁ taṇhagataṁ bhavesu;\nHīnā narā maccumukhe lapanti,\nAvītataṇhāse bhavābhavesu.","en":"I see the world’s population floundering,\ngiven to craving for future lives.\nBase men wail in the jaws of death,\nnot rid of craving for life after life."}},{"id":"snp4.2:6","sourceIds":["snp4.2:6.1","snp4.2:6.2","snp4.2:6.3","snp4.2:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mamāyite passatha phandamāne,\nMaccheva appodake khīṇasote;\nEtampi disvā amamo careyya,\nBhavesu āsattimakubbamāno.","en":"See them flounder over belongings,\nlike fish in puddles of a dried-up stream.\nSeeing this, live unselfishly,\nforming no attachment to future lives."}},{"id":"snp4.2:7","sourceIds":["snp4.2:7.1","snp4.2:7.2","snp4.2:7.3","snp4.2:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ubhosu antesu vineyya chandaṁ,\nPhassaṁ pariññāya anānugiddho;\nYadattagarahī tadakubbamāno,\nNa lippatī diṭṭhasutesu dhīro.","en":"Rid of desire for both ends,\nhaving completely understood contact, free of greed,\ndoing nothing for which they’d blame themselves,\nthe attentive don’t cling to the seen and the heard."}},{"id":"snp4.2:8","sourceIds":["snp4.2:8.1","snp4.2:8.2","snp4.2:8.3","snp4.2:8.4","snp4.2:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saññaṁ pariññā vitareyya oghaṁ,\nPariggahesu muni nopalitto;\nAbbūḷhasallo caramappamatto,\nNāsīsatī lokamimaṁ parañcāti.\nGuhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ dutiyaṁ.","en":"Having completely understood perception and having crossed the flood,\nthe sage, not clinging to possessions,\nwith dart plucked out, living diligently,\ndoes not hope for this world or the next."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.2/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."}