{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.104/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.104","id":"suttacentral_an3.104","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.104/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, I went in search of the world\u2019s gratification, and I found it. I\u2019ve seen clearly with wisdom the full extent of gratification in the world. I went in search of the world\u2019s drawbacks, and I found them. I\u2019ve seen clearly with wisdom the full extent of the drawbacks in the world. I went in search of escape from the world, and I found it. I\u2019ve seen clearly with wisdom the full extent of escape from the world. As long as I didn\u2019t truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape 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 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":"Gratification (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":186}