{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn14.33/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn14.33","id":"suttacentral_sn14.33","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.33/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, if there were no gratification in the earth element, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But since there is gratification in the earth element, sentient beings are aroused by it. If the earth element had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since the earth element has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from the earth element, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from the earth element, sentient beings do escape from it. If there were no gratification in the water element \u2026 If there were no gratification in the fire element \u2026 If there were no gratification in the air element \u2026 As long as sentient beings don\u2019t truly understand these four elements\u2019 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 these four elements\u2019 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":"If There Were No","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":222}