{"id":"an4.8","title":"Self-assured","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.8","title":"Self-assured","units":[{"id":"an4.8:0","sourceIds":["an4.8:0.1","an4.8:0.2","an4.8:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.8\n1. Bhaṇḍagāmavagga\nVesārajjasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.8\n1. At Wares Village\nSelf-assured"}},{"id":"an4.8:1","sourceIds":["an4.8:1.1","an4.8:1.2","an4.8:1.3","an4.8:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, tathāgatassa vesārajjāni, yehi vesārajjehi samannāgato tathāgato āsabhaṁ ṭhānaṁ paṭijānāti, parisāsu sīhanādaṁ nadati, brahmacakkaṁ pavatteti.\nKatamāni cattāri?\n‘“Sammāsambuddhassa te paṭijānato ime dhammā anabhisambuddhā”ti tatra vata maṁ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ sahadhammena paṭicodessatī’ti nimittametaṁ, bhikkhave, na samanupassāmi.\nEtamahaṁ, bhikkhave, nimittaṁ asamanupassanto khemappatto abhayappatto vesārajjappatto viharāmi.","en":"“Mendicants, a Realized One possesses four kinds of self-assurance. With these he claims the bull’s place, roars his lion’s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel.\nWhat four?\nI see no reason for anyone—whether ascetic, brahmin, god, Māra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world—to legitimately scold me, saying: ‘You claim to be a fully awakened Buddha, but you don’t understand these things.’\nSince I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured."}},{"id":"an4.8:2","sourceIds":["an4.8:2.1","an4.8:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘“Khīṇāsavassa te paṭijānato ime āsavā aparikkhīṇā”ti tatra vata maṁ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ sahadhammena paṭicodessatī’ti nimittametaṁ, bhikkhave, na samanupassāmi.\nEtamahaṁ, bhikkhave, nimittaṁ asamanupassanto khemappatto abhayappatto vesārajjappatto viharāmi.","en":"I see no reason for anyone—whether ascetic, brahmin, god, Māra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world—to legitimately scold me, saying: ‘You claim to have ended all defilements, but you still have these defilements.’\nSince I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured."}},{"id":"an4.8:3","sourceIds":["an4.8:3.1","an4.8:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘“Ye kho pana te antarāyikā dhammā vuttā te paṭisevato nālaṁ antarāyāyā”ti tatra vata maṁ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ sahadhammena paṭicodessatī’ti nimittametaṁ, bhikkhave, na samanupassāmi.\nEtamahaṁ, bhikkhave, nimittaṁ asamanupassanto khemappatto abhayappatto vesārajjappatto viharāmi.","en":"I see no reason for anyone—whether ascetic, brahmin, god, Māra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world—to legitimately scold me, saying: ‘The acts that you say are obstructions are not really obstructions for the one who performs them.’\nSince I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured."}},{"id":"an4.8:4","sourceIds":["an4.8:4.1","an4.8:4.2","an4.8:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘“Yassa kho pana te atthāya dhammo desito so na niyyāti takkarassa sammā dukkhakkhayāyā”ti tatra vata maṁ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ sahadhammena paṭicodessatī’ti nimittametaṁ, bhikkhave, na samanupassāmi.\nEtamahaṁ, bhikkhave, nimittaṁ asamanupassanto khemappatto abhayappatto vesārajjappatto viharāmi.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri tathāgatassa vesārajjāni, yehi vesārajjehi samannāgato tathāgato āsabhaṁ ṭhānaṁ paṭijānāti, parisāsu sīhanādaṁ nadati, brahmacakkaṁ pavattetīti.","en":"I see no reason for anyone—whether ascetic, brahmin, god, Māra, or the Divinity, or anyone else in the world—to legitimately scold me, saying: ‘Regardless of your goal in teaching the Dhamma, it does not deliver one who applies it to the complete ending of suffering.’\nSince I see no such reason, I live secure, fearless, and self-assured.\nA Realized One possesses these four kinds of self-assurance. With these he claims the bull’s place, roars his lion’s roar in the assemblies, and turns the divine wheel."}},{"id":"an4.8:5","sourceIds":["an4.8:5.1","an4.8:5.2","an4.8:5.3","an4.8:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye kecime vādapathā puthussitā,\nYaṁnissitā samaṇabrāhmaṇā ca;\nTathāgataṁ patvā na te bhavanti,\nVisāradaṁ vādapathātivattaṁ.","en":"The various grounds for criticism\nthat ascetics and brahmins rely on\nvanish on reaching a Realized One,\nself-assured, gone beyond grounds for criticism."}},{"id":"an4.8:6","sourceIds":["an4.8:6.1","an4.8:6.2","an4.8:6.3","an4.8:6.4","an4.8:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo dhammacakkaṁ abhibhuyya kevalī,\nPavattayī sabbabhūtānukampī;\nTaṁ tādisaṁ devamanussaseṭṭhaṁ,\nSattā namassanti bhavassa pāragun”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"He rolls forth the Wheel of Dhamma as a consummate one,\ncomplete, sympathetic for all living creatures.\nSentient beings revere him, first among gods and humans,\nwho has gone beyond rebirth.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.8/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."}