{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.17/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.17","id":"suttacentral_sn35.17","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.17/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, if there were no gratification in the eye, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But since there is gratification in the eye, sentient beings are aroused by it. If the eye had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since the eye has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from the eye, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from the eye, sentient beings do escape from it. If there were no gratification in the ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t be aroused by it. But since there is gratification in the mind, sentient beings are aroused by it. If the mind had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t grow disillusioned with it. But since the mind has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it. If there were no escape from the mind, sentient beings wouldn\u2019t escape from it. But since there is an escape from the mind, sentient beings do escape from it. As long as sentient beings don\u2019t truly understand these six interior sense fields\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 six interior sense fields\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 Gratification (Interior)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":281}