{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn9.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn9.2","id":"suttacentral_sn9.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove. Now at that time that mendicant went for the day\u2019s meditation, but fell asleep. The deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what\u2019s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse: \u201cGet up, mendicant! Why lie down? What\u2019s the point in sleeping? How can the afflicted slumber, inflicted by an arrow strike? You should amplify the faith that led you to go forth from the lay life to homelessness. Don\u2019t fall under the sway of slumber.\u201d \u201cSensual pleasures are impermanent and unstable, but dullards still fall for them. Among those who are bound, <j>they\u2019re free and unattached: why bother a renunciate? By removing desire and greed, by going beyond ignorance, that knowledge has been perfectly cleansed: why bother a renunciate? By breaking ignorance with knowledge, by the ending of defilements, they\u2019re sorrowless, unstressed: why bother a renunciate? Energetic, resolute, always staunchly vigorous, aspiring to extinguishment: why bother a renunciate?\u201d","title":"Application","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":183}