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Numbered Discourses 3.105 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.105

11. Awakening – 11. Sambodhavagga

AN 3.105 Gratification (2nd) – Dutiyaassādasutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, if there were no gratification in the world, sentient beings wouldn’t love it.

“No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, loke assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā loke sārajjeyyuṁ.

1.2

But because there is gratification in the world, sentient beings do love it.

Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi loke assādo, tasmā sattā loke sārajjanti.

1.3

If the world had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.

No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, loke ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā loke nibbindeyyuṁ.

1.4

But since the world has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.

Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi loke ādīnavo, tasmā sattā loke nibbindanti.

1.5

If there were no escape from the world, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.

No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, loke nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā lokamhā nissareyyuṁ.

1.6

But since there is an escape from the world, sentient beings do escape from it.

Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi loke nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā lokamhā nissaranti.

1.7

As long as sentient beings don’t truly understand the world’s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven’t escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and Brahmās, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they don’t live detached, liberated, with a mind free of limits.

Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, sattā lokassa assādañca assādato ādīnavañca ādīnavato nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññāsuṁ, neva tāva, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaṁyuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā vihariṁsu.

1.8

But when sentient beings truly understand the world’s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they’ve escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and Brahmās, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they live detached, liberated, with a mind free of limits.”

Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, sattā lokassa assādañca assādato ādīnavañca ādīnavato nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññāsuṁ, atha, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaṁyuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā viharantī”ti.

1.9

 

Tatiyaṁ.