{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.105/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.105","id":"suttacentral_an3.105","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.105/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, if there were no gratification in the world, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But because there is gratification in the world, sentient beings are aroused by it. If the world had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since the world has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from the world, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from the world, sentient beings do escape from it. As long as sentient beings don\u2019t truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven\u2019t escaped from this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans\u2014and they don\u2019t live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries. But when sentient beings truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they\u2019ve escaped from this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans\u2014and they live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.\u201d","title":"Gratification (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":182}