{"id":"sn9.13","title":"Undisciplined Faculties","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.13","title":"Undisciplined Faculties","units":[{"id":"sn9.13:0","sourceIds":["sn9.13:0.1","sn9.13:0.2","sn9.13:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.13\n1. Vanavagga\nPākatindriyasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.13\n1. In the Woods\nUndisciplined Faculties"}},{"id":"sn9.13:1","sourceIds":["sn9.13:1.1","sn9.13:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ sambahulā bhikkhū kosalesu viharanti aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe uddhatā unnaḷā capalā mukharā vikiṇṇavācā muṭṭhassatino asampajānā asamāhitā vibbhantacittā pākatindriyā.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tesaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ anukampikā atthakāmā te bhikkhū saṁvejetukāmā yena te bhikkhū tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā te bhikkhū gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At one time several mendicants were staying in the Kosalan lands in a certain forest grove. They were haughty, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties.\nThe deity haunting that forest had sympathy for those mendicants, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached those mendicants wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.13:2","sourceIds":["sn9.13:2.1","sn9.13:2.2","sn9.13:2.3","sn9.13:2.4","sn9.13:2.5","sn9.13:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sukhajīvino pure āsuṁ,\nbhikkhū gotamasāvakā;\nAnicchā piṇḍamesanā,\nanicchā sayanāsanaṁ;\nLoke aniccataṁ ñatvā,\ndukkhassantaṁ akaṁsu te.","en":"“The mendicants used to live happily,\nas disciples of Gotama.\nDesireless they sought alms;\ndesireless they used their lodgings.\nKnowing that the world was impermanent\nthey made an end of suffering."}},{"id":"sn9.13:3","sourceIds":["sn9.13:3.1","sn9.13:3.2","sn9.13:3.3","sn9.13:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dupposaṁ katvā attānaṁ,\ngāme gāmaṇikā viya;\nBhutvā bhutvā nipajjanti,\nparāgāresu mucchitā.","en":"But now they’ve made themselves hard to look after,\nlike chiefs in a village.\nThey eat and eat and then lie down,\nunconscious in the homes of others."}},{"id":"sn9.13:4","sourceIds":["sn9.13:4.1","sn9.13:4.2","sn9.13:4.3","sn9.13:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṅghassa añjaliṁ katvā,\nidhekacce vadāmahaṁ;\nApaviddhā anāthā te,\nyathā petā tatheva te.","en":"Having raised my cupped palms to the Saṅgha,\nI speak here only about certain people.\nThey’re dregs, with no protector,\njust like those who have passed away."}},{"id":"sn9.13:5","sourceIds":["sn9.13:5.1","sn9.13:5.2","sn9.13:5.3","sn9.13:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye kho pamattā viharanti,\nte me sandhāya bhāsitaṁ;\nYe appamattā viharanti,\nnamo tesaṁ karomahan”ti.","en":"I’m speaking about\nthose who live negligently.\nTo those who live diligently\nI pay homage.”"}},{"id":"sn9.13:6","sourceIds":["sn9.13:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho te bhikkhū tāya devatāya saṁvejitā saṁvegamāpādunti.","en":"Impelled by that deity, those mendicants were struck with a sense of urgency."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.13/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."}