{"id":"sn22.22","title":"The Burden of Responsibility","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn22.22","title":"The Burden of Responsibility","units":[{"id":"sn22.22:0","sourceIds":["sn22.22:0.1","sn22.22:0.2","sn22.22:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.22\n3. Bhāravagga\nBhārasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 22.22\n3. The Burden\nThe Burden of Responsibility"}},{"id":"sn22.22:1","sourceIds":["sn22.22:1.1","sn22.22:1.2","sn22.22:1.3","sn22.22:1.4","sn22.22:1.5","sn22.22:1.6","sn22.22:1.7","sn22.22:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ … tatra kho …\n“bhārañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi bhārahārañca bhārādānañca bhāranikkhepanañca.\nTaṁ suṇātha.\nKatamo ca, bhikkhave, bhāro?\nPañcupādānakkhandhā tissa vacanīyaṁ.\nKatame pañca?\nRūpupādānakkhandho, vedanupādānakkhandho, saññupādānakkhandho, saṅkhārupādānakkhandho, viññāṇupādānakkhandho;\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhāro.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, I will teach you the burden, the bearer of the burden, the taking up of the burden, and the putting down of the burden.\nListen …\nAnd what is the burden?\nThe five grasping aggregates, it should be said.\nWhat five?\nThe grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.\nThis is called the burden."}},{"id":"sn22.22:2","sourceIds":["sn22.22:2.1","sn22.22:2.2","sn22.22:2.3","sn22.22:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, bhārahāro?\nPuggalo tissa vacanīyaṁ.\nYvāyaṁ āyasmā evaṁnāmo evaṅgotto;\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhārahāro.","en":"And who is the bearer of the burden?\nThe individual, it should be said;\nthe venerable of such name and such clan.\nThis is called the bearer of the burden."}},{"id":"sn22.22:3","sourceIds":["sn22.22:3.1","sn22.22:3.2","sn22.22:3.3","sn22.22:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, bhikkhave, bhārādānaṁ?\nYāyaṁ taṇhā ponobhavikā nandīrāgasahagatā tatratatrābhinandinī, seyyathidaṁ—\nkāmataṇhā, bhavataṇhā, vibhavataṇhā.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhārādānaṁ.","en":"And what is the taking up of the burden?\nIt’s the craving that leads to future lives, mixed up with relishing and greed, taking pleasure there wherever it alights. That is,\ncraving for sensual pleasures, craving for continued existence, and craving for nonexistence.\nThis is called the taking up of the burden."}},{"id":"sn22.22:4","sourceIds":["sn22.22:4.1","sn22.22:4.2","sn22.22:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, bhikkhave, bhāranikkhepanaṁ?\nYo tassāyeva taṇhāya asesavirāganirodho cāgo paṭinissaggo mutti anālayo.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhāranikkhepanan”ti.","en":"And what is the putting down of the burden?\nIt’s the fading away and cessation of that very same craving no residue left behind; giving it away, letting it go, releasing it, and not clinging to it.\nThis is called the putting down of the burden.”"}},{"id":"sn22.22:5","sourceIds":["sn22.22:5.1","sn22.22:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn22.22:6","sourceIds":["sn22.22:6.1","sn22.22:6.2","sn22.22:6.3","sn22.22:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Bhārā have pañcakkhandhā,\nbhārahāro ca puggalo;\nBhārādānaṁ dukhaṁ loke,\nbhāranikkhepanaṁ sukhaṁ.","en":"“The five aggregates are indeed burdens,\nand the individual is the bearer of the burden.\nTaking up the burden is suffering in the world,\nand putting the burden down is happiness."}},{"id":"sn22.22:7","sourceIds":["sn22.22:7.1","sn22.22:7.2","sn22.22:7.3","sn22.22:7.4","sn22.22:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nikkhipitvā garuṁ bhāraṁ,\naññaṁ bhāraṁ anādiya;\nSamūlaṁ taṇhamabbuyha,\nnicchāto parinibbuto”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"When the heavy burden is put down\nwithout taking up another,\none who has plucked out craving, root and all,\nis hungerless, quenched.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.22/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."}