{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.2","id":"suttacentral_sn5.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Som\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 Som\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cThat state\u2019s very challenging; it\u2019s for the sages to attain. With her two-inch wisdom, it\u2019s not possible for a woman.\u201d Then the nun Som\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 Som\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cWhat difference does womanhood make when the mind is serene, and knowledge is present as you rightly discern the Dhamma. Surely someone who might think: \u2018I am woman\u2019, or \u2018I am man\u2019, or \u2018I am\u2019 anything at all, is fit for M\u0101ra to address.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Som\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With Som\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":224}