{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn1.34/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn1.34","id":"suttacentral_sn1.34","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.34/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then, late at night, several glorious deities of the host of a hundred felicities, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. Standing to one side, one deity spoke this verse in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cAmong mankind there are no sensual pleasures that are permanent. Here there are sensuous things, bound to which, drunk on which, there\u2019s no coming back. That person doesn\u2019t return from Death\u2019s dominion.\u201d \u201cGloom is born of desire; suffering is born of desire; when desire is removed, gloom is removed; when gloom is removed, suffering is removed.\u201d \u201cThe world\u2019s pretty things aren\u2019t sensual pleasures. Greedy intention is a person\u2019s sensual pleasure. The world\u2019s pretty things stay just as they are, but the attentive remove desire for them. Give up anger, get rid of conceit, and get past all the fetters. Sufferings don\u2019t torment the one who has nothing, not clinging to name and form. They gave up judgment without falling into conceit; craving for name and form was cut off right here. They cut the ties, untroubled, <j>with no need for hope. Though gods and humans search for them in this life or the next, they never find them, not in heaven nor in any abode.\u201d \u201cIf neither gods nor humans see one freed in this way,\u201d said Venerable Moghar\u0101ja, \u201cin this life or the next, are those who revere that supreme man, who lives for the good of mankind, <j>also worthy of praise?\u201d \u201cThe mendicants who revere one freed in this way,\u201d said the Buddha, \u201care also worthy of praise, Moghar\u0101ja. Having understood the teaching <j>and given up doubt, those mendicants slip their chains.\u201d","title":"There Are None","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":292}