{"id":"thag16.9","title":"Anuruddha","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag16.9","title":"Anuruddha","units":[{"id":"thag16.9:0","sourceIds":["thag16.9:0.1","thag16.9:0.2","thag16.9:0.3","thag16.9:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 16.9\nVīsatinipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nAnuruddhattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 16.9\nThe Book of the Twenties\nChapter One\nAnuruddha"}},{"id":"thag16.9:1","sourceIds":["thag16.9:1.1","thag16.9:1.2","thag16.9:1.3","thag16.9:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pahāya mātāpitaro,\nbhaginī ñātibhātaro;\nPañca kāmaguṇe hitvā,\nanuruddhova jhāyati.","en":"Leaving my mother and father behind,\nas well as sisters, kinsmen, and brothers;\nhaving given up the five sensual stimuli,\nAnuruddha practices absorption."}},{"id":"thag16.9:2","sourceIds":["thag16.9:2.1","thag16.9:2.2","thag16.9:2.3","thag16.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sameto naccagītehi,\nsammatāḷappabodhano;\nNa tena suddhimajjhagaṁ,\nmārassa visaye rato.","en":"Surrounded by song and dance,\nawakened by cymbals and gongs,\nhe did not find purification\nwhile delighting in Māra’s domain."}},{"id":"thag16.9:3","sourceIds":["thag16.9:3.1","thag16.9:3.2","thag16.9:3.3","thag16.9:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Etañca samatikkamma,\nrato buddhassa sāsane;\nSabboghaṁ samatikkamma,\nanuruddhova jhāyati.","en":"But he has gone beyond all that,\nand delights in the Buddha’s teaching.\nHaving crossed over the entire flood,\nAnuruddha practices absorption."}},{"id":"thag16.9:4","sourceIds":["thag16.9:4.1","thag16.9:4.2","thag16.9:4.3","thag16.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā,\nphoṭṭhabbā ca manoramā;\nEte ca samatikkamma,\nanuruddhova jhāyati.","en":"Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,\nand touches so delightful:\nhaving crossed over these as well,\nAnuruddha practices absorption."}},{"id":"thag16.9:5","sourceIds":["thag16.9:5.1","thag16.9:5.2","thag16.9:5.3","thag16.9:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Piṇḍapātamatikkanto,\neko adutiyo muni;\nEsati paṁsukūlāni,\nanuruddho anāsavo.","en":"Returning from almsround,\nalone, without partner,\nseeking rags from the dust heap,\nAnuruddha is without defilements."}},{"id":"thag16.9:6","sourceIds":["thag16.9:6.1","thag16.9:6.2","thag16.9:6.3","thag16.9:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vicinī aggahī dhovi,\nrajayī dhārayī muni;\nPaṁsukūlāni matimā,\nanuruddho anāsavo.","en":"The thoughtful sage\nselected rags from the dust heap;\nhe picked them up, washed, dyed, and wore them;\nAnuruddha is without defilements."}},{"id":"thag16.9:7","sourceIds":["thag16.9:7.1","thag16.9:7.2","thag16.9:7.3","thag16.9:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mahiccho ca asantuṭṭho,\nsaṁsaṭṭho yo ca uddhato;\nTassa dhammā ime honti,\npāpakā saṅkilesikā.","en":"The principles of someone\nwho has many wishes and is not content,\nwho socializes and is conceited,\nare wicked and corrupting."}},{"id":"thag16.9:8","sourceIds":["thag16.9:8.1","thag16.9:8.2","thag16.9:8.3","thag16.9:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sato ca hoti appiccho,\nsantuṭṭho avighātavā;\nPavivekarato vitto,\nniccamāraddhavīriyo.","en":"But someone who is mindful, few of wishes,\ncontent and untroubled,\ndelighting in seclusion, joyful,\nalways resolute and energetic;"}},{"id":"thag16.9:9","sourceIds":["thag16.9:9.1","thag16.9:9.2","thag16.9:9.3","thag16.9:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassa dhammā ime honti,\nkusalā bodhipakkhikā;\nAnāsavo ca so hoti,\niti vuttaṁ mahesinā.","en":"their principles are skillful,\non the side of awakening;\nthey are without defilements—\nso said the great seer."}},{"id":"thag16.9:10","sourceIds":["thag16.9:10.1","thag16.9:10.2","thag16.9:10.3","thag16.9:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mama saṅkappamaññāya,\nsatthā loke anuttaro;\nManomayena kāyena,\niddhiyā upasaṅkami.","en":"“Knowing my thoughts,\nthe supreme Teacher in the world\ncame to me in a mind-made body,\nusing his psychic power."}},{"id":"thag16.9:11","sourceIds":["thag16.9:11.1","thag16.9:11.2","thag16.9:11.3","thag16.9:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadā me ahu saṅkappo,\ntato uttari desayi;\nNippapañcarato buddho,\nnippapañcamadesayi.","en":"He taught me more\nthan I had thought of.\nThe Buddha who loves non-proliferation\ntaught me non-proliferation."}},{"id":"thag16.9:12","sourceIds":["thag16.9:12.1","thag16.9:12.2","thag16.9:12.3","thag16.9:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassāhaṁ dhammamaññāya,\nvihāsiṁ sāsane rato;\nTisso vijjā anuppattā,\nkataṁ buddhassa sāsanaṁ.","en":"Understanding that teaching,\nI happily did his bidding.\nI’ve attained the three knowledges,\nand have fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions."}},{"id":"thag16.9:13","sourceIds":["thag16.9:13.1","thag16.9:13.2","thag16.9:13.3","thag16.9:13.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcapaññāsavassāni,\nyato nesajjiko ahaṁ;\nPañcavīsativassāni,\nyato middhaṁ samūhataṁ.","en":"For the last fifty-five years\nI have not lain down to sleep.\nTwenty-five years have passed\nsince I eradicated drowsiness.”"}},{"id":"thag16.9:14","sourceIds":["thag16.9:14.1","thag16.9:14.2","thag16.9:14.3","thag16.9:14.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nāhu assāsapassāsā,\nṭhitacittassa tādino;\nAnejo santimārabbha,\ncakkhumā parinibbuto.","en":"“There was no more breathing\nfor the unaffected one of steady heart.\nImperturbable, committed to peace,\nthe Clear-eyed One was fully quenched."}},{"id":"thag16.9:15","sourceIds":["thag16.9:15.1","thag16.9:15.2","thag16.9:15.3","thag16.9:15.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Asallīnena cittena,\nvedanaṁ ajjhavāsayi;\nPajjotasseva nibbānaṁ,\nvimokkho cetaso ahu.","en":"He put up with painful feelings\nwithout flinching.\nThe liberation of his heart\nwas like the extinguishing of a lamp.”"}},{"id":"thag16.9:16","sourceIds":["thag16.9:16.1","thag16.9:16.2","thag16.9:16.3","thag16.9:16.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete pacchimakā dāni,\nmunino phassapañcamā;\nNāññe dhammā bhavissanti,\nsambuddhe parinibbute.","en":"“Now these touches and the other four\nare the last to be experienced by the sage;\nnor will there be other phenomena\nsince the Buddha was fully quenched."}},{"id":"thag16.9:17","sourceIds":["thag16.9:17.1","thag16.9:17.2","thag16.9:17.3","thag16.9:17.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Natthi dāni punāvāso,\ndevakāyasmi jālini;\nVikkhīṇo jātisaṁsāro,\nnatthi dāni punabbhavo.","en":"O Penelope, weaver of the web—\nthere’s no more abodes in the heavenly host.\nTransmigration through births is finished,\nnow there’ll be no more future lives.”"}},{"id":"thag16.9:18","sourceIds":["thag16.9:18.1","thag16.9:18.2","thag16.9:18.3","thag16.9:18.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yassa muhuttena sahassadhā,\nLoko saṁvidito sabrahmakappo;\nVasī iddhiguṇe cutūpapāte,\nKāle passati devatā sa bhikkhu.","en":"“The mendicant by whom the galaxy\nwith the age of the Divinity are known in an hour—\nthat master of psychic ability sees the gods\nat the time they pass away and are reborn.”"}},{"id":"thag16.9:19","sourceIds":["thag16.9:19.1","thag16.9:19.2","thag16.9:19.3","thag16.9:19.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Annabhāro pure āsiṁ,\ndaliddo ghāsahārako;\nSamaṇaṁ paṭipādesiṁ,\nupariṭṭhaṁ yasassinaṁ.","en":"“In the past I was Annabhāra,\na poor carrier of fodder.\nI practiced as an ascetic,\nthe renowned Upariṭṭha."}},{"id":"thag16.9:20","sourceIds":["thag16.9:20.1","thag16.9:20.2","thag16.9:20.3","thag16.9:20.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Somhi sakyakule jāto,\nanuruddhoti maṁ vidū;\nUpeto naccagītehi,\nsammatāḷappabodhano.","en":"Then I was reborn in the Sakyan clan,\nwhere I was known as ‘Anuruddha’.\nSurrounded by song and dance,\nI was awakened by cymbals and gongs."}},{"id":"thag16.9:21","sourceIds":["thag16.9:21.1","thag16.9:21.2","thag16.9:21.3","thag16.9:21.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Athaddasāsiṁ sambuddhaṁ,\nsatthāraṁ akutobhayaṁ;\nTasmiṁ cittaṁ pasādetvā,\npabbajiṁ anagāriyaṁ.","en":"Then I saw the Buddha,\nthe Teacher, fearing nothing from any quarter;\nfilling my mind with confidence in him,\nI went forth to homelessness."}},{"id":"thag16.9:22","sourceIds":["thag16.9:22.1","thag16.9:22.2","thag16.9:22.3","thag16.9:22.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pubbenivāsaṁ jānāmi,\nyattha me vusitaṁ pure;\nTāvatiṁsesu devesu,\naṭṭhāsiṁ sakkajātiyā.","en":"I know my past lives,\nthe places I used to live.\nI was born as Sakka,\nand stayed among the thirty-three gods."}},{"id":"thag16.9:23","sourceIds":["thag16.9:23.1","thag16.9:23.2","thag16.9:23.3","thag16.9:23.4","thag16.9:23.5","thag16.9:23.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sattakkhattuṁ manussindo,\nahaṁ rajjamakārayiṁ;\nCāturanto vijitāvī,\njambusaṇḍassa issaro;\nAdaṇḍena asatthena,\ndhammena anusāsayiṁ.","en":"Seven times I was a king of men\nruling a kingdom,\nvictorious in the four quarters,\nlord of the Black Plum Tree Land.\nWithout rod or sword,\nI governed by principle."}},{"id":"thag16.9:24","sourceIds":["thag16.9:24.1","thag16.9:24.2","thag16.9:24.3","thag16.9:24.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ito satta tato satta,\nsaṁsārāni catuddasa;\nNivāsamabhijānissaṁ,\ndevaloke ṭhito tadā.","en":"Seven from here, seven from there—\nfourteen transmigrations in all.\nI shall remember my past lives:\nat that time I stayed in the realm of the gods."}},{"id":"thag16.9:25","sourceIds":["thag16.9:25.1","thag16.9:25.2","thag16.9:25.3","thag16.9:25.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcaṅgike samādhimhi,\nsante ekodibhāvite;\nPaṭippassaddhiladdhamhi,\ndibbacakkhu visujjhi me.","en":"I have gained complete tranquility\nin immersion with five factors.\nPeaceful, serene,\nmy clairvoyance is purified."}},{"id":"thag16.9:26","sourceIds":["thag16.9:26.1","thag16.9:26.2","thag16.9:26.3","thag16.9:26.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cutūpapātaṁ jānāmi,\nsattānaṁ āgatiṁ gatiṁ;\nItthabhāvaññathābhāvaṁ,\njhāne pañcaṅgike ṭhito.","en":"Steady in five-factored absorption,\nI know the passing away and rebirth of beings,\ntheir coming and going,\ntheir lives in this state and that."}},{"id":"thag16.9:27","sourceIds":["thag16.9:27.1","thag16.9:27.2","thag16.9:27.3","thag16.9:27.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pariciṇṇo mayā satthā,\n… pe\n…\nbhavanetti samūhatā.","en":"I’ve served the Teacher\nand fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.\nThe heavy burden is laid down,\nthe leash to existence is eradicated."}},{"id":"thag16.9:28","sourceIds":["thag16.9:28.1","thag16.9:28.2","thag16.9:28.3","thag16.9:28.4","thag16.9:28.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vajjīnaṁ veḷuvagāme,\nahaṁ jīvitasaṅkhayā;\nHeṭṭhato veḷugumbasmiṁ,\nnibbāyissaṁ anāsavo”ti.\n… Anuruddho thero ….","en":"In the Vajjian village of Veḷuva,\nmy life will come to an end.\nBeneath a thicket of bamboos,\nbeing undefiled, I will be fully extinguished.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag16.9/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."}