{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.26/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.26","id":"suttacentral_sn22.26","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.26/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, before my awakening\u2014when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening\u2014I thought: \u2018What\u2019s the gratification, the drawback, and the escape when it comes to form \u2026 feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 and consciousness?\u2019 Then it occurred to me: \u2018The pleasure and happiness that arise from form: this is its gratification. That form is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback. Removing and giving up desire and greed for form: this is its escape. The pleasure and happiness that arise from feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness: this is its gratification. That consciousness is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback. Removing and giving up desire and greed for consciousness: this is its escape.\u2019 As long as I didn\u2019t truly understand these five grasping aggregates\u2019 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 these five grasping aggregates\u2019 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":"Gratification","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":238}