{"id":"sn35.17","title":"If There Were No Gratification (Interior)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.17","title":"If There Were No Gratification (Interior)","units":[{"id":"sn35.17:0","sourceIds":["sn35.17:0.1","sn35.17:0.2","sn35.17:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.17\n2. Yamakavagga\nPaṭhamanoceassādasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.17\n2. Pairs\nIf There Were No Gratification (Interior)"}},{"id":"sn35.17:1","sourceIds":["sn35.17:1.1","sn35.17:1.2","sn35.17:1.3","sn35.17:1.4","sn35.17:1.5","sn35.17:1.6","sn35.17:1.7","sn35.17:1.8","sn35.17:1.9","sn35.17:1.10","sn35.17:1.11","sn35.17:1.12","sn35.17:1.13","sn35.17:1.14","sn35.17:1.15","sn35.17:1.16","sn35.17:1.17","sn35.17:1.18","sn35.17:1.19","sn35.17:1.20","sn35.17:1.21"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa assādo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa ādīnavo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmā nissareyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ tasmā sattā cakkhusmā nissaranti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, sotassa assādo abhavissa …\nno cedaṁ, bhikkhave, ghānassa assādo abhavissa …\nno cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya sārajjeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya assādo, tasmā sattā jivhāya sārajjanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya nibbindeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya ādīnavo, tasmā sattā jivhāya nibbindanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya nissareyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā jivhāya nissaranti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, kāyassa assādo abhavissa …\nno cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa assādo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ sārajjanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa ādīnavo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ nibbindanti.\nNo cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmā nissareyyuṁ.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā manasmā nissaranti.","en":"“Mendicants, if there were no gratification in the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.\nBut since there is gratification in the eye, sentient beings are aroused by it.\nIf the eye had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.\nBut since the eye has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.\nIf there were no escape from the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.\nBut since there is an escape from the eye, sentient beings do escape from it.\nIf there were no gratification in the ear …\nnose …\ntongue …\nbody …\nmind, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.\nBut since there is gratification in the mind, sentient beings are aroused by it.\nIf the mind had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.\nBut since the mind has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.\nIf there were no escape from the mind, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.\nBut since there is an escape from the mind, sentient beings do escape from it."}},{"id":"sn35.17:2","sourceIds":["sn35.17:2.1","sn35.17:2.2","sn35.17:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññaṁsu, neva tāva, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā vihariṁsu.\nYato ca kho, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññaṁsu, atha, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā viharantī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"As long as sentient beings don’t truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven’t escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they don’t live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.\nBut when sentient beings truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they’ve escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.17/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."}