{"id":"snp4.5","title":"Eight on the Ultimate","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp4.5","title":"Eight on the Ultimate","units":[{"id":"snp4.5:0","sourceIds":["snp4.5:0.1","snp4.5:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 4.5\nParamaṭṭhakasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 4.5\nEight on the Ultimate"}},{"id":"snp4.5:1","sourceIds":["snp4.5:1.1","snp4.5:1.2","snp4.5:1.3","snp4.5:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Paramanti diṭṭhīsu paribbasāno,\nYaduttari kurute jantu loke;\nHīnāti aññe tato sabbamāha,\nTasmā vivādāni avītivatto.","en":"If, maintaining that theirs is the “ultimate” view,\na personage makes it out to be highest in the world;\nthen they declare all others are “lesser”;\nthat’s why they’re not beyond disputes."}},{"id":"snp4.5:2","sourceIds":["snp4.5:2.1","snp4.5:2.2","snp4.5:2.3","snp4.5:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadattanī passati ānisaṁsaṁ,\nDiṭṭhe sute sīlavate mute vā;\nTadeva so tattha samuggahāya,\nNihīnato passati sabbamaññaṁ.","en":"If they see an advantage for themselves\nin what’s seen, heard, or thought; or in precepts or vows,\nin that case, having adopted that one alone,\nthey see all others as inferior."}},{"id":"snp4.5:3","sourceIds":["snp4.5:3.1","snp4.5:3.2","snp4.5:3.3","snp4.5:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṁ vāpi ganthaṁ kusalā vadanti,\nYaṁ nissito passati hīnamaññaṁ;\nTasmā hi diṭṭhaṁ va sutaṁ mutaṁ vā,\nSīlabbataṁ bhikkhu na nissayeyya.","en":"Those who are skilled say that, too, is a knot,\nrelying on which people see others as lesser.\nThat’s why a mendicant ought not rely\non what’s seen, heard, or thought, or on precepts and vows."}},{"id":"snp4.5:4","sourceIds":["snp4.5:4.1","snp4.5:4.2","snp4.5:4.3","snp4.5:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Diṭṭhimpi lokasmiṁ na kappayeyya,\nÑāṇena vā sīlavatena vāpi;\nSamoti attānamanūpaneyya,\nHīno na maññetha visesi vāpi.","en":"Nor would they form a view about the world\nthrough a notion or through precepts and vows.\nThey would never represent themselves as “equal”,\nnor conceive themselves “worse” or “better”."}},{"id":"snp4.5:5","sourceIds":["snp4.5:5.1","snp4.5:5.2","snp4.5:5.3","snp4.5:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Attaṁ pahāya anupādiyāno,\nÑāṇepi so nissayaṁ no karoti;\nSa ve viyattesu na vaggasārī,\nDiṭṭhimpi so na pacceti kiñci.","en":"What was picked up has been set down and is not grasped again;\nthey form no dependency even on notions.\nThey follow no side among the factions,\nand believe in no view at all."}},{"id":"snp4.5:6","sourceIds":["snp4.5:6.1","snp4.5:6.2","snp4.5:6.3","snp4.5:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yassūbhayante paṇidhīdha natthi,\nBhavābhavāya idha vā huraṁ vā;\nNivesanā tassa na santi keci,\nDhammesu niccheyya samuggahītaṁ.","en":"One here who has no wish for either end—\nfor any state of existence in this life or the next—\nhas adopted no dogma at all\nafter judging among the teachings."}},{"id":"snp4.5:7","sourceIds":["snp4.5:7.1","snp4.5:7.2","snp4.5:7.3","snp4.5:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassīdha diṭṭhe va sute mute vā,\nPakappitā natthi aṇūpi saññā;\nTaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ diṭṭhimanādiyānaṁ,\nKenīdha lokasmiṁ vikappayeyya.","en":"For them not even the tiniest idea is formulated here\nregarding what is seen, heard, or thought.\nThat brahmin does not grasp any view—\nhow could anyone in this world judge them?"}},{"id":"snp4.5:8","sourceIds":["snp4.5:8.1","snp4.5:8.2","snp4.5:8.3","snp4.5:8.4","snp4.5:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na kappayanti na purekkharonti,\nDhammāpi tesaṁ na paṭicchitāse;\nNa brāhmaṇo sīlavatena neyyo,\nPāraṅgato na pacceti tādīti.\nParamaṭṭhakasuttaṁ pañcamaṁ.","en":"They don’t make things up or promote them,\nand don’t subscribe to any of the doctrines.\nThe brahmin has no need to be led by precept or vow;\ngone to the far shore, one such does not return."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.5/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."}