{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.63/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.63","id":"suttacentral_sn35.63","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.63/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then Venerable Migaj\u0101la went up to the Buddha \u2026 and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of one who lives alone. How is one who lives alone defined? And how is living with a partner defined?\u201d \u201cMigaj\u0101la, there are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. If a mendicant approves, welcomes, and keeps clinging to them, this gives rise to relishing. When there\u2019s relishing there\u2019s lust. When there\u2019s lust there is yoking. A mendicant who is fettered by relishing is said to live with a partner. There are sounds \u2026 smells \u2026 tastes \u2026 touches \u2026 There are ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. If a mendicant approves, welcomes, and keeps clinging to them, this gives rise to relishing. When there\u2019s relishing there\u2019s lust. When there\u2019s lust there is yoking. A mendicant who is fettered by relishing is said to live with a partner. A mendicant who lives like this is said to live with a partner, even if they frequent remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest that are quiet and still, far from the madding crowd, remote from human settlements, and fit for retreat. Why is that? For craving is their partner, and they haven\u2019t given it up. That\u2019s why they\u2019re said to live with a partner. There are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. If a mendicant doesn\u2019t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to them, relishing ceases. When there\u2019s no relishing there\u2019s no lust. When there\u2019s no lust there\u2019s no yoking. A mendicant who is not fettered by relishing is said to live alone. There are sounds \u2026 smells \u2026 tastes \u2026 touches \u2026 There are ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. If a mendicant doesn\u2019t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to them, relishing ceases. When there\u2019s no relishing there\u2019s no lust. When there\u2019s no lust there\u2019s no yoking. A mendicant who is not fettered by relishing is said to live alone. A mendicant who lives like this is said to live alone, even if they live within a village crowded by monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen; by rulers and their chief ministers, and monastics of other religions and their disciples. Why is that? For craving is their partner, and they have given it up. That\u2019s why they\u2019re said to live alone.\u201d","title":"With Migaj\u0101la (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":409}