{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.103/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.103","id":"suttacentral_an3.103","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.103/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, before my awakening\u2014when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening\u2014I thought: \u2018What\u2019s the gratification in the world? What\u2019s the drawback? What\u2019s the escape?\u2019 Then it occurred to me: \u2018The pleasure and happiness that arise from the world: this is its gratification. That the world is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback. Removing and giving up desire and greed for the world: this is its escape.\u2019 As long as I didn\u2019t truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I didn\u2019t announce my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans. But when I did truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I announced my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans. Knowledge and vision arose in me: \u2018My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u2019\u201d","title":"Before Awakening","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":183}