{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.10","id":"suttacentral_sn5.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Vajir\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 for the day\u2019s meditation, plunged deep into it, and sat at the root of a tree to meditate. Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Vajir\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cWho created this sentient being? Where is its maker? Where has the being arisen? And where does it cease?\u201d Then the nun Vajir\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 immersion!\u201d Then Vajir\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cWhy do you believe there\u2019s such a thing as a <j>\u2018sentient being\u2019? M\u0101ra, is this your theory? This is just a pile of conditions, you won\u2019t find a sentient being here. When the parts are assembled we use the word \u2018chariot\u2019. So too, when the aggregates are present \u2018sentient being\u2019 is the convention we use. But it\u2019s only suffering that comes to be, lasts a while, then expires. Naught but suffering comes to be, naught but suffering ceases.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Vajir\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there. The Linked Discourses on Nuns are complete.","title":"With Vajir\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":264}