{"id":"sn5.1","title":"With Āḷavikā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn5.1","title":"With Āḷavikā","units":[{"id":"sn5.1:0","sourceIds":["sn5.1:0.1","sn5.1:0.2","sn5.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.1\n1. Bhikkhunīvagga\nĀḷavikāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 5.1\n1. Nuns\nWith Āḷavikā"}},{"id":"sn5.1:1","sourceIds":["sn5.1:1.1","sn5.1:1.2","sn5.1:1.3","sn5.1:1.4","sn5.1:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho āḷavikā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya sāvatthiṁ piṇḍāya pāvisi.\nSāvatthiyaṁ piṇḍāya caritvā pacchābhattaṁ piṇḍapātapaṭikkantā yena andhavanaṁ tenupasaṅkami vivekatthinī.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā āḷavikāya bhikkhuniyā bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo vivekamhā cāvetukāmo yena āḷavikā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āḷavikaṁ bhikkhuniṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen the nun Āḷavikā robed up in the morning and, taking her bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for alms.\nShe wandered for alms in Sāvatthī. After the meal, on her return from almsround, she went to the Dark Forest seeking seclusion.\nThen Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Āḷavikā feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from seclusion, went up to her and addressed her in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.1:2","sourceIds":["sn5.1:2.1","sn5.1:2.2","sn5.1:2.3","sn5.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthi nissaraṇaṁ loke,\nkiṁ vivekena kāhasi;\nBhuñjassu kāmaratiyo,\nmāhu pacchānutāpinī”ti.","en":"“There’s no escape in the world,\nso what will seclusion do for you?\nEnjoy erotic delights;\ndon’t regret it later.”"}},{"id":"sn5.1:3","sourceIds":["sn5.1:3.1","sn5.1:3.2","sn5.1:3.3","sn5.1:3.4","sn5.1:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āḷavikāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“ko nu khvāyaṁ manusso vā amanusso vā gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti?\nAtha kho āḷavikāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“māro kho ayaṁ pāpimā mama bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo vivekamhā cāvetukāmo gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti.\nAtha kho āḷavikā bhikkhunī “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi paccabhāsi:","en":"Then the nun Āḷavikā thought,\n“Who’s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?”\nThen she thought,\n“This is Māra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from seclusion!”\nThen Āḷavikā, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.1:4","sourceIds":["sn5.1:4.1","sn5.1:4.2","sn5.1:4.3","sn5.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Atthi nissaraṇaṁ loke,\npaññāya me suphussitaṁ;\nPamattabandhu pāpima,\nna tvaṁ jānāsi taṁ padaṁ.","en":"“There is an escape in the world,\nand I’ve personally experienced it with wisdom.\nO Wicked One, kinsman of the negligent,\nyou don’t know that state."}},{"id":"sn5.1:5","sourceIds":["sn5.1:5.1","sn5.1:5.2","sn5.1:5.3","sn5.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sattisūlūpamā kāmā,\nkhandhāsaṁ adhikuṭṭanā;\nYaṁ tvaṁ kāmaratiṁ brūsi,\narati mayha sā ahū”ti.","en":"Sensual pleasures are like swords and spears;\nthe aggregates are their chopping block.\nWhat you call erotic delight\nis now no delight for me.”"}},{"id":"sn5.1:6","sourceIds":["sn5.1:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ āḷavikā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Āḷavikā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.1/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."}