{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.4","id":"suttacentral_sn5.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Vijay\u0101 robed up in the morning \u2026 and sat at the root of a tree for the day\u2019s meditation. Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Vijay\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse: \u201cYou\u2019re so young and beautiful, and I\u2019m a youth in my prime. Come, my lady, let us enjoy the music of a five-piece band.\u201d Then the nun Vijay\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 Vijay\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cSights, sounds, tastes, smells, and touches so delightful. I hand them right back to you, M\u0101ra, for I have no use for them. This body is rotting, decaying and frail. I\u2019m horrified and repelled by it, and I\u2019ve eradicated sensual craving. There are beings in the realm of luminous form, and others stuck in the formless. I\u2019ve destroyed the darkness regarding all such peaceful attainments.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Vijay\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With Vijay\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":214}