{"id":"sn22.31","title":"The Root of Gloom","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn22.31","title":"The Root of Gloom","units":[{"id":"sn22.31:0","sourceIds":["sn22.31:0.1","sn22.31:0.2","sn22.31:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.31\n3. Bhāravagga\nAghamūlasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 22.31\n3. The Burden\nThe Root of Gloom"}},{"id":"sn22.31:1","sourceIds":["sn22.31:1.1","sn22.31:1.2","sn22.31:1.3","sn22.31:1.4","sn22.31:1.5","sn22.31:1.6","sn22.31:1.7","sn22.31:1.8","sn22.31:1.9","sn22.31:1.10","sn22.31:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Aghañca, bhikkhave, desessāmi aghamūlañca.\nTaṁ suṇātha.\nKatamañca, bhikkhave, aghaṁ?\nRūpaṁ, bhikkhave, aghaṁ, vedanā aghaṁ, saññā aghaṁ, saṅkhārā aghaṁ, viññāṇaṁ aghaṁ.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, aghaṁ.\nKatamañca, bhikkhave, aghamūlaṁ?\nYāyaṁ taṇhā ponobhavikā nandīrāgasahagatā tatratatrābhinandinī;\nSeyyathidaṁ—kāmataṇhā, bhavataṇhā, vibhavataṇhā.\nIdaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, aghamūlan”ti.\nDasamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, I will teach you gloom and the root of gloom.\nListen …\nAnd what is gloom?\nForm, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness are gloom.\nThis is called gloom.\nAnd what is the root of gloom?\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 root of gloom.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.31/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."}