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AN 7.9PTS AN 4.7Pahāna1 min read

Giving Up

Pahānasutta

The purpose of the spiritual life is to give up the fetters of compliance, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.9Numbered Discourses 7.9
  • 0.21. Dhanavagga1. Wealth

0.3PahānasuttaGiving Up

1.1PTS 4.8“Sattannaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁyojanānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.“Mendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven fetters.1.2Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ?What seven?1.3Anunayasaṁyojanassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paṭighasaṁyojanassa …pe…The fetters of attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.1.4diṭṭhisaṁyojanassa …1.5vicikicchāsaṁyojanassa …1.6mānasaṁyojanassa …1.7bhavarāgasaṁyojanassa …1.8avijjāsaṁyojanassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.1.9Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven fetters.1.10Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno anunayasaṁyojanaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti ucchinnamūlaṁ tālāvatthukataṁ anabhāvaṅkataṁ āyatiṁ anuppādadhammaṁ.When a mendicant has given up the fetters of attraction, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance—cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them, so they are unable to arise in the future—1.11Paṭighasaṁyojanaṁ …pe…1.12diṭṭhisaṁyojanaṁ …1.13vicikicchāsaṁyojanaṁ …1.14mānasaṁyojanaṁ …1.15bhavarāgasaṁyojanaṁ …1.16avijjāsaṁyojanaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti ucchinnamūlaṁ tālāvatthukataṁ anabhāvaṅkataṁ āyatiṁ anuppādadhammaṁ.1.17Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā”ti.they’re called a mendicant who has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.”

1.18Navamaṁ.