{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn5.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn5.9","id":"suttacentral_sn5.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then the nun Sel\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 Sel\u0101 feel fear, terror, and goosebumps \u2026 addressed her in verse: \u201cWho created this puppet? Where is its maker? Where has the puppet arisen? And where does it cease?\u201d Then the nun Sel\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 Sel\u0101, knowing that this was M\u0101ra the Wicked, replied to him in verse: \u201cThis puppet isn\u2019t self-made, nor is this gloom made by another. It comes to be because of a cause, and ceases when the cause breaks up. It\u2019s like a seed that\u2019s sown in a field; it grows relying on both the soil\u2019s nutrients as well as moisture. In the same way the aggregates and elements and these six sense fields come to be because of a cause, and cease when the cause breaks up.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe nun Sel\u0101 knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"With Sel\u0101","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":205}