{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-1.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-1.htm","text":"With what\nis the world shrouded?\nBecause of what\ndoesn't it shine?\nWith what\nis it smeared? Tell me.\nWhat\nis its great danger & fear?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With ignorance\nthe world is shrouded.\nBecause of stinginess,\nheedlessness,\nit doesn't shine.\nWith longing\nit's smeared -- I tell you.\nSuffering-stress:\nits great danger & fear.\nThey flow every which way,\nthe streams.\nWhat is their blocking,\nwhat their restraint -- tell me --\nwith what are they finally stopped?\nWhatever streams\nthere are in the world:\ntheir blocking is\nmindfulness, mindfulness\nis their restraint -- I tell you --\nwith discernment\nthey're finally stopped.\nDiscernment & mindfulness,\nname & form, dear sir:\nTell me, when asked this,\nwhere are they brought to a halt?\nThis question you've asked, Ajita,\nI'll answer it for you --\nwhere name & form\nare brought to a halt\nwithout trace:\nWith the cessation of consciousness\nthey're brought\nto a halt.\nThose here who have fathomed the Dhamma,\nthose who are learners,\nthose who are run-of-the-mill:\nWhen you, dear sir, astute,\nare asked this,\ntell me their manner of life.\nHe should not hanker\nfor sensual pleasures,\nshould be limpid in mind.\nSkilled in all mental qualities,\nhe, the monk, should live his life\nmindfully.\nAccording to the Culaniddesa (Nd.II), the streams that \"flow every which way\" are the streams of craving, views, conceit, defilement, corruption, and ignorance that flow out the six sense media. The first two lines in Ven. Ajita's second set of questions (the first half-line in the Pali) is identical to the first half-line in Dhp. 340.\nFor a more detailed answer to Ajita's last set of questions, see SN XII.31.","title":"Sn V.1: Ajita-manava-puccha","type":"page"}