{"id":"snp5.16","title":"The Questions of Mogharāja","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.16","title":"The Questions of Mogharāja","units":[{"id":"snp5.16:0","sourceIds":["snp5.16:0.1","snp5.16:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.16\nMogharājamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.16\nThe Questions of Mogharāja"}},{"id":"snp5.16:1","sourceIds":["snp5.16:1.1","snp5.16:1.2","snp5.16:1.3","snp5.16:1.4","snp5.16:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dvāhaṁ sakkaṁ apucchissaṁ,\n(iccāyasmā mogharājā)\nNa me byākāsi cakkhumā;\nYāvatatiyañca devīsi,\nByākarotīti me sutaṁ.","en":"“Twice I have asked the Sakyan,”\nsaid Venerable Mogharāja,\n“but you haven’t answered me, O Clear-eyed One.\nI have heard that the divine seer\nanswers when questioned a third time."}},{"id":"snp5.16:2","sourceIds":["snp5.16:2.1","snp5.16:2.2","snp5.16:2.3","snp5.16:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayaṁ loko paro loko,\nbrahmaloko sadevako;\nDiṭṭhiṁ te nābhijānāti,\ngotamassa yasassino.","en":"Regarding this world, the other world,\nand the realm of divinity with its gods,\nI’m not familiar with the view\nof the renowned Gotama."}},{"id":"snp5.16:3","sourceIds":["snp5.16:3.1","snp5.16:3.2","snp5.16:3.3","snp5.16:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ abhikkantadassāviṁ,\natthi pañhena āgamaṁ;\nKathaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ,\nmaccurājā na passati”.","en":"So I have come seeking with a question\nfor the one of excellent vision.\nHow to look upon the world\nso the King of Death won’t see you?”"}},{"id":"snp5.16:4","sourceIds":["snp5.16:4.1","snp5.16:4.2","snp5.16:4.3","snp5.16:4.4","snp5.16:4.5","snp5.16:4.6","snp5.16:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Suññato lokaṁ avekkhassu,\nMogharāja sadā sato;\nAttānudiṭṭhiṁ ūhacca,\nEvaṁ maccutaro siyā;\nEvaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ,\nMaccurājā na passatī”ti.\nMogharājamāṇavapucchā pannarasamā.","en":"“Look upon the world as empty,\nMogharāja, ever mindful.\nHaving uprooted the theory of self,\nyou may thus cross over death.\nThat’s how to look upon the world\nso the King of Death won’t see you.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.16/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."}