{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.1","id":"suttacentral_sn5.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then the nun \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101 robed up in the morning and, taking her bowl and robe, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. She wandered for alms in S\u0101vatth\u012b. After the meal, on her return from almsround, she went to the Dark Forest seeking seclusion. Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from seclusion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cThere\u2019s no escape in the world, so what will seclusion do for you? Enjoy erotic delights; don\u2019t regret it later.\u201d Then the nun \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101 thought, \u201cWho\u2019s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?\u201d Then she thought, \u201cThis is M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from seclusion!\u201d Then \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cThere is an escape in the world, and I\u2019ve personally experienced it with wisdom. O Wicked One, kinsman of the negligent, you don\u2019t know that state. Sensual pleasures are like swords and spears; the aggregates are their chopping block. What you call erotic delight is now no delight for me.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With \u0100\u1e37avik\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":230}