{"id":"thag6.14","title":"Sabbakāmi","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag6.14","title":"Sabbakāmi","units":[{"id":"thag6.14:0","sourceIds":["thag6.14:0.1","thag6.14:0.2","thag6.14:0.3","thag6.14:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 6.14\nChakkanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nSabbakāmittheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 6.14\nThe Book of the Sixes\nChapter One\nSabbakāmi"}},{"id":"thag6.14:1","sourceIds":["thag6.14:1.1","thag6.14:1.2","thag6.14:1.3","thag6.14:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dvipādakoyaṁ asuci,\nduggandho parihīrati;\nNānākuṇapaparipūro,\nvissavanto tato tato.","en":"This two-legged body is dirty and stinking,\nfull of different carcasses,\nand oozing all over the place—\nbut still it is cherished!"}},{"id":"thag6.14:2","sourceIds":["thag6.14:2.1","thag6.14:2.2","thag6.14:2.3","thag6.14:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Migaṁ nilīnaṁ kūṭena,\nbaḷiseneva ambujaṁ;\nVānaraṁ viya lepena,\nbādhayanti puthujjanaṁ.","en":"Like a lurking deer by a trick,\nlike a fish by a hook,\nlike a langur by tar—\nthey trap an ordinary person."}},{"id":"thag6.14:3","sourceIds":["thag6.14:3.1","thag6.14:3.2","thag6.14:3.3","thag6.14:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā,\nphoṭṭhabbā ca manoramā;\nPañca kāmaguṇā ete,\nitthirūpasmi dissare.","en":"Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,\nand touches so delightful:\nthese five kinds of sensual stimulation\nare seen in a woman’s body."}},{"id":"thag6.14:4","sourceIds":["thag6.14:4.1","thag6.14:4.2","thag6.14:4.3","thag6.14:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye etā upasevanti,\nrattacittā puthujjanā;\nVaḍḍhenti kaṭasiṁ ghoraṁ,\nācinanti punabbhavaṁ.","en":"Those ordinary people, their minds full of lust,\nwho pursue those women:\nthey swell the horrors of the charnel ground,\npiling up future lives."}},{"id":"thag6.14:5","sourceIds":["thag6.14:5.1","thag6.14:5.2","thag6.14:5.3","thag6.14:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo cetā parivajjeti,\nsappasseva padā siro;\nSomaṁ visattikaṁ loke,\nsato samativattati.","en":"One who, being mindful,\navoids them\nlike a snake’s head with their foot,\ngets over clinging to the world."}},{"id":"thag6.14:6","sourceIds":["thag6.14:6.1","thag6.14:6.2","thag6.14:6.3","thag6.14:6.4","thag6.14:6.5","thag6.14:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāmesvādīnavaṁ disvā,\nnekkhammaṁ daṭṭhu khemato;\nNissaṭo sabbakāmehi,\npatto me āsavakkhayo”ti.\n… Sabbakāmitthero ….\nChakkanipāto niṭṭhito.","en":"Seeing the danger in sensual pleasures,\nseeing renunciation as sanctuary,\nI’ve escaped all sensual pleasures,\nand attained the ending of defilements."}},{"id":"thag6.14:7","sourceIds":["thag6.14:7.0","thag6.14:7.1","thag6.14:7.2","thag6.14:7.3","thag6.14:7.4","thag6.14:7.5","thag6.14:7.6","thag6.14:7.7","thag6.14:7.8","thag6.14:7.9","thag6.14:7.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tatruddānaṁ\nUruveḷakassapo ca,\nthero tekicchakāri ca;\nMahānāgo ca kullo ca,\nmālukyo sappadāsako;\nKātiyāno migajālo,\njento sumanasavhayo;\nNhātamuni brahmadatto,\nsirimaṇḍo sabbakāmī ca;\nGāthāyo caturāsīti,\ntherā cettha catuddasāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag6.14/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."}
