{"id":"snp4.4","title":"Eight on the Pure","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp4.4","title":"Eight on the Pure","units":[{"id":"snp4.4:0","sourceIds":["snp4.4:0.1","snp4.4:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 4.4\nSuddhaṭṭhakasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 4.4\nEight on the Pure"}},{"id":"snp4.4:1","sourceIds":["snp4.4:1.1","snp4.4:1.2","snp4.4:1.3","snp4.4:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Passāmi suddhaṁ paramaṁ arogaṁ,\nDiṭṭhena saṁsuddhi narassa hoti;\nEvābhijānaṁ paramanti ñatvā,\nSuddhānupassīti pacceti ñāṇaṁ.","en":"“I see someone pure, perfectly healthy;\nit is vision that grants a person purity.”\nRecalling this notion of the ultimate,\nthey believe in the notion that there is one who observes purity."}},{"id":"snp4.4:2","sourceIds":["snp4.4:2.1","snp4.4:2.2","snp4.4:2.3","snp4.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Diṭṭhena ce suddhi narassa hoti,\nÑāṇena vā so pajahāti dukkhaṁ;\nAññena so sujjhati sopadhīko,\nDiṭṭhī hi naṁ pāva tathā vadānaṁ.","en":"If a person were granted purity through what is seen,\nor if by a notion they could give up suffering,\nthen one with attachments is purified by another:\ntheir view betrays them as one who asserts thus."}},{"id":"snp4.4:3","sourceIds":["snp4.4:3.1","snp4.4:3.2","snp4.4:3.3","snp4.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na brāhmaṇo aññato suddhimāha,\nDiṭṭhe sute sīlavate mute vā;\nPuññe ca pāpe ca anūpalitto,\nAttañjaho nayidha pakubbamāno.","en":"The brahmin speaks not of purity from another\nin terms of what has been seen, heard, or thought; or by precepts or vows.\nThey are unsullied in the midst of good and evil,\nletting go what was picked up, without creating anything new here."}},{"id":"snp4.4:4","sourceIds":["snp4.4:4.1","snp4.4:4.2","snp4.4:4.3","snp4.4:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Purimaṁ pahāya aparaṁ sitāse,\nEjānugā te na taranti saṅgaṁ;\nTe uggahāyanti nirassajanti,\nKapīva sākhaṁ pamuñcaṁ gahāyaṁ.","en":"Having let go the last they lay hold of the next;\nfollowing impulse, they don’t pass the chain.\nThey grab on and let loose like a monkey\ngrabbing and releasing a branch."}},{"id":"snp4.4:5","sourceIds":["snp4.4:5.1","snp4.4:5.2","snp4.4:5.3","snp4.4:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sayaṁ samādāya vatāni jantu,\nUccāvacaṁ gacchati saññasatto;\nVidvā ca vedehi samecca dhammaṁ,\nNa uccāvacaṁ gacchati bhūripañño.","en":"Having undertaken their own vows, a personage\nvisits various teachers, being attached to perception.\nOne who knows, having comprehended the truth through the knowledges,\ndoes not visit various teachers, being of vast wisdom."}},{"id":"snp4.4:6","sourceIds":["snp4.4:6.1","snp4.4:6.2","snp4.4:6.3","snp4.4:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sa sabbadhammesu visenibhūto,\nYaṁ kiñci diṭṭhaṁ va sutaṁ mutaṁ vā;\nTameva dassiṁ vivaṭaṁ carantaṁ,\nKenīdha lokasmi vikappayeyya.","en":"They are remote from all things\nseen, heard, or thought.\nSeeing them living openly,\nhow could anyone in this world judge them?"}},{"id":"snp4.4:7","sourceIds":["snp4.4:7.1","snp4.4:7.2","snp4.4:7.3","snp4.4:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na kappayanti na purekkharonti,\nAccantasuddhīti na te vadanti;\nĀdānaganthaṁ gathitaṁ visajja,\nĀsaṁ na kubbanti kuhiñci loke.","en":"They don’t make things up or promote them,\nor speak of the uttermost purity.\nAfter untying the tight knot of grasping\nthey long for nothing in the world."}},{"id":"snp4.4:8","sourceIds":["snp4.4:8.1","snp4.4:8.2","snp4.4:8.3","snp4.4:8.4","snp4.4:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sīmātigo brāhmaṇo tassa natthi,\nÑatvā va disvā va samuggahītaṁ;\nNa rāgarāgī na virāgaratto,\nTassīdha natthi paramuggahītanti.\nSuddhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ catutthaṁ.","en":"The brahmin has stepped over the perimeter;\nknowing and seeing, they adopt nothing.\nNeither in love with passion nor besotted by dispassion,\nthere is nothing here they adopt as the ultimate."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.4/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."}