{"id":"sn36.4","title":"The Abyss","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn36.4","title":"The Abyss","units":[{"id":"sn36.4:0","sourceIds":["sn36.4:0.1","sn36.4:0.2","sn36.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 36.4\n1. Sagāthāvagga\nPātālasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 36.4\n1. With Verses\nThe Abyss"}},{"id":"sn36.4:1","sourceIds":["sn36.4:1.1","sn36.4:1.2","sn36.4:1.3","sn36.4:1.4","sn36.4:1.5","sn36.4:1.6","sn36.4:1.7","sn36.4:1.8","sn36.4:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Assutavā, bhikkhave, puthujjano yaṁ vācaṁ bhāsati:\n‘atthi mahāsamudde pātālo’ti.\nTaṁ kho panetaṁ, bhikkhave, assutavā puthujjano asantaṁ avijjamānaṁ evaṁ vācaṁ bhāsati:\n‘atthi mahāsamudde pātālo’ti.\nSārīrikānaṁ kho etaṁ, bhikkhave, dukkhānaṁ vedanānaṁ adhivacanaṁ yadidaṁ ‘pātālo’ti.\nAssutavā, bhikkhave, puthujjano sārīrikāya dukkhāya vedanāya phuṭṭho samāno socati kilamati paridevati urattāḷiṁ kandati sammohaṁ āpajjati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ‘assutavā puthujjano pātāle na paccuṭṭhāsi, gādhañca nājjhagā’.\nSutavā ca kho, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako sārīrikāya dukkhāya vedanāya phuṭṭho samāno neva socati, na kilamati, na paridevati, na urattāḷiṁ kandati, na sammohaṁ āpajjati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ‘sutavā ariyasāvako pātāle paccuṭṭhāsi, gādhañca ajjhagā’ti.","en":"“Mendicants, when an unlearned ordinary person says that\nthere’s an abyss under the ocean,\nthey’re speaking of something that doesn’t exist.\n‘Abyss’ is a term for painful physical feelings.\nWhen an unlearned ordinary person experiences painful physical feelings they sorrow and wail and lament, beating their breast and falling into confusion.\nThey’re called an unlearned ordinary person who hasn’t stood up in the abyss and has found no footing.\nWhen a learned noble disciple experiences painful physical feelings they don’t sorrow or wail or lament, beating their breast and falling into confusion.\nThey’re called a learned noble disciple who has stood up in the abyss and found a footing."}},{"id":"sn36.4:2","sourceIds":["sn36.4:2.1","sn36.4:2.2","sn36.4:2.3","sn36.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo etā nādhivāseti,\nuppannā vedanā dukhā;\nSārīrikā pāṇaharā,\nyāhi phuṭṭho pavedhati.","en":"If you can’t abide\nthose painful physical feelings\nthat arise and sap your vitality;\nif you tremble at their touch,"}},{"id":"sn36.4:3","sourceIds":["sn36.4:3.1","sn36.4:3.2","sn36.4:3.3","sn36.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akkandati parodati,\ndubbalo appathāmako;\nNa so pātāle paccuṭṭhāsi,\natho gādhampi nājjhagā.","en":"weeping and wailing,\na weakling lacking strength—\nyou won’t stand up in the abyss\nand find a footing."}},{"id":"sn36.4:4","sourceIds":["sn36.4:4.1","sn36.4:4.2","sn36.4:4.3","sn36.4:4.4","sn36.4:4.5","sn36.4:4.6","sn36.4:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo cetā adhivāseti,\nuppannā vedanā dukhā;\nSārīrikā pāṇaharā,\nyāhi phuṭṭho na vedhati;\nSa ve pātāle paccuṭṭhāsi,\natho gādhampi ajjhagā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"If you can endure\nthose painful physical feelings\nthat arise and sap your vitality;\nif you don’t tremble at their touch—\nyou stand up in the abyss\nand find a footing.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn36.4/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."}