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If There Were No Gratification (Interior)

Paṭhamanoceassādasutta

Beings are attached to the six interior sense fields due to gratification, repelled due to drawbacks, and find escape because there is an escape.

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.17Linked Discourses 35.17
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0.3PaṭhamanoceassādasuttaIf There Were No Gratification (Interior)

1.1PTS 4.11“No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ.“Mendicants, if there were no gratification in the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.1.2Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa assādo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjanti.But since there is gratification in the eye, sentient beings are aroused by it.1.3No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ.If the eye had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.1.4Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa ādīnavo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindanti.But since the eye has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.1.5No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmā nissareyyuṁ.If there were no escape from the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.1.6Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ tasmā sattā cakkhusmā nissaranti.But since there is an escape from the eye, sentient beings do escape from it.

1.7No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, sotassa assādo abhavissa …If there were no gratification in the ear …1.8no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, ghānassa assādo abhavissa …nose …1.9no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya sārajjeyyuṁ.tongue …1.10Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya assādo, tasmā sattā jivhāya sārajjanti.1.11No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya nibbindeyyuṁ.1.12Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya ādīnavo, tasmā sattā jivhāya nibbindanti.1.13No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya nissareyyuṁ.1.14Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi jivhāya nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā jivhāya nissaranti.1.15No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, kāyassa assādo abhavissa …body …1.16no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ.mind, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.1.17Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa assādo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ sārajjanti.But since there is gratification in the mind, sentient beings are aroused by it.1.18No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ.If the mind had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.1.19Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa ādīnavo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ nibbindanti.But since the mind has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.1.20No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmā nissareyyuṁ.If there were no escape from the mind, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.1.21Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā manasmā nissaranti.But since there is an escape from the mind, sentient beings do escape from it.

2.1PTS 4.12Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññaṁsu, neva tāva, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā vihariṁsu.As long as sentient beings don’t truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven’t escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they don’t live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.

2.2Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññaṁsu, atha, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā viharantī”ti.But when sentient beings truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they’ve escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.”

2.3Pañcamaṁ.