{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn22.28/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn22.28","id":"suttacentral_sn22.28","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.28/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, if there were no gratification in form, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But since there is gratification in form, sentient beings are aroused by it. If form had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since form has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from form, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from form, sentient beings do escape from it. If there were no gratification in feeling \u2026 perception \u2026 choices \u2026 consciousness, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But since there is gratification in consciousness, sentient beings are aroused by it. If consciousness had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since consciousness has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from consciousness, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from consciousness, sentient beings do escape from it. As long as sentient beings don\u2019t truly understand these five grasping aggregates\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 limits. But when sentient beings truly understand these five grasping aggregates\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 limits.\u201d","title":"Gratification (3rd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":267}