{"id":"sn4.15","title":"A Mental Snare","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.15","title":"A Mental Snare","units":[{"id":"sn4.15:0","sourceIds":["sn4.15:0.1","sn4.15:0.2","sn4.15:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.15\n2. Dutiyavagga\nMānasasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.15\n2. Rule\nA Mental Snare"}},{"id":"sn4.15:1","sourceIds":["sn4.15:1.1","sn4.15:1.2","sn4.15:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.15:2","sourceIds":["sn4.15:2.1","sn4.15:2.2","sn4.15:2.3","sn4.15:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Antalikkhacaro pāso,\nyvāyaṁ carati mānaso;\nTena taṁ bādhayissāmi,\nna me samaṇa mokkhasī”ti.","en":"“There’s a mental snare\nwandering in midair.\nI’ll bind you with it—\nyou won’t escape me, ascetic!”"}},{"id":"sn4.15:3","sourceIds":["sn4.15:3.1","sn4.15:3.2","sn4.15:3.3","sn4.15:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā,\nPhoṭṭhabbā ca manoramā;\nEttha me vigato chando,\nNihato tvamasi antakā”ti.","en":"“Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,\nand touches so delightful:\ndesire for these is gone from me.\nYou’re beaten, terminator!”"}},{"id":"sn4.15:4","sourceIds":["sn4.15:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.15/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."}