1.34. Chúng Không Phải

Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.

Atha kho sambahulā satullapakāyikā devatāyo abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhaṁsu.

Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho ekā devatā bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:

“Na santi kāmā manujesu niccā,

Santīdha kamanīyāni yesu baddho;

Yesu pamatto apunāgamanaṁ,

Anāgantā puriso maccudheyyā”ti.

“Chandajaṁ aghaṁ chandajaṁ dukkhaṁ,

Chandavinayā aghavinayo;

Aghavinayā dukkhavinayo”ti.

“Na te kāmā yāni citrāni loke,

Saṅkapparāgo purisassa kāmo;

Tiṭṭhanti citrāni tatheva loke,

Athettha dhīrā vinayanti chandaṁ.

Kodhaṁ jahe vippajaheyya mānaṁ,

Saṁyojanaṁ sabbamatikkameyya;

Taṁ nāmarūpasmimasajjamānaṁ,

Akiñcanaṁ nānupatanti dukkhā.

Pahāsi saṅkhaṁ na vimānamajjhagā,

Acchecchi taṇhaṁ idha nāmarūpe;

Taṁ chinnaganthaṁ anighaṁ nirāsaṁ,

Pariyesamānā nājjhagamuṁ;

Devā manussā idha vā huraṁ vā,

Saggesu vā sabbanivesanesū”ti.

“Tañce hi nāddakkhuṁ tathāvimuttaṁ,

(iccāyasmā mogharājā)

Devā manussā idha vā huraṁ vā;

Naruttamaṁ atthacaraṁ narānaṁ,

Ye taṁ namassanti pasaṁsiyā te”ti.

“Pasaṁsiyā tepi bhavanti bhikkhū,

(mogharājāti bhagavā)

Ye taṁ namassanti tathāvimuttaṁ;

Aññāya dhammaṁ vicikicchaṁ pahāya,

Saṅgātigā tepi bhavanti bhikkhū”ti.

SC 1On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapiṇḍika’s Park. Then, when the night had advanced, a number of devatās belonging to the Satullapa host, of stunning beauty, illuminating the entire Jeta’s Grove, approached the Blessed One. Having approached, they paid homage to the Blessed One and stood to one side.

SC 2Then one devatā, standing to one side, recited this verse in the presence of the Blessed One:

SC 3“There are among humans
No permanent sensual pleasures;
Here there are just desirable things.
When a person is bound to these,
Heedless in their midst,
From Death’s realm he does not reach
The state of no-more-coming-back.”

SC 4Another devatā:

“Misery is born of desire;
suffering is born of desire.
By the removal of desire,
misery is removed;
by the removal of misery,
suffering is removed.”

The Blessed One:

SC 5 “They are not sense pleasures, the world’s pretty things:
Man’s sensuality is the intention of lust.
The pretty things remain as they are in the world
But the wise remove the desire for them. sn.i.23

SC 6 “One should discard anger, cast off conceit,
Transcend all the fetters.
No sufferings torment one who has nothing,
Who does not adhere to name-and-form.

SC 7 “He abandoned reckoning, did not assume conceit;
He cut off craving here for name-and-form.
Though devas and humans search for him
Here and beyond, in the heavens and all abodes,
They do not find the one whose knots are cut,
The one untroubled, free of longing.”

SC 8 “If devas and humans have not seen
The one thus liberated here or beyond,”
said the Venerable Mogharaja,
“Are they to be praised who venerate him,
The best of men, faring for the good of humans?”

SC 9 “Those bhikkhus too become worthy of praise,
Mogharaja,” said the Blessed One,
“Who venerate him, the one thus liberated.
But having known Dhamma and abandoned doubt,
Those bhikkhus become even surmounters of ties.”