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संयुत्त निकाय ५६।४७
Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.47
The Related Suttas Collection 56.47
५। पपातवग्ग
5. Papātavagga
5. A Cliff
पठमछिग्गळयुगसुत्त
Paṭhamachiggaḷayugasutta
A Yoke With a Hole (1st)
“सेय्यथापि, भिक्खवे, पुरिसो महासमुद्दे एकच्छिग्गळं युगं पक्खिपेय्य। तत्रापिस्स काणो कच्छपो। सो वस्ससतस्स वस्ससतस्स अच्चयेन सकिं सकिं उम्मुज्जेय्य।
“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso mahāsamudde ekacchiggaḷaṁ1 yugaṁ pakkhipeyya. Tatrāpissa kāṇo kacchapo. So vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjeyya.
“Bhikkhus, suppose a person was to throw a yoke with a single hole into the ocean. And there was a one-eyed turtle who popped up once every hundred years.
तं किं मञ्ञथ, भिक्खवे, अपि नु खो काणो कच्छपो वस्ससतस्स वस्ससतस्स अच्चयेन सकिं सकिं उम्मुज्जन्तो अमुस्मिं एकच्छिग्गळे युगे गीवं पवेसेय्या”ति?
Taṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave, api nu kho kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjanto amusmiṁ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṁ paveseyyā”ti?
What do you think, bhikkhus? Would that one-eyed turtle, popping up once every hundred years, still poke its neck through the hole in that yoke?”
“यदि नून, भन्ते, कदाचि करहचि दीघस्स अद्धुनो अच्चयेना”ति।
“Yadi nūna, bhante, kadāci karahaci dīghassa addhuno accayenā”ti.
“Only after a very long time, sir, if ever.”
“खिप्पतरं खो सो, भिक्खवे, काणो कच्छपो वस्ससतस्स वस्ससतस्स अच्चयेन सकिं सकिं उम्मुज्जन्तो अमुस्मिं एकच्छिग्गळे युगे गीवं पवेसेय्य, न त्वेवाहं, भिक्खवे, सकिं विनिपातगतेन बालेन मनुस्सत्तं वदामि।
“Khippataraṁ kho so, bhikkhave, kāṇo kacchapo vassasatassa vassasatassa accayena sakiṁ sakiṁ ummujjanto amusmiṁ ekacchiggaḷe yuge gīvaṁ paveseyya, na tvevāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sakiṁ vinipātagatena bālena2 manussattaṁ vadāmi.
“That one-eyed turtle would poke its neck through the hole in that yoke sooner than a fool who has fallen to the underworld would be reborn as a human being, I say.
तं किस्स हेतु? न हेत्थ, भिक्खवे, अत्थि धम्मचरिया, समचरिया, कुसलकिरिया, पुञ्ञकिरिया। अञ्ञमञ्ञखादिका एत्थ, भिक्खवे, वत्तति दुब्बलखादिका। तं किस्स हेतु? अदिट्ठत्ता, भिक्खवे, चतुन्नं अरियसच्चानं। कतमेसं चतुन्नं? दुक्खस्स अरियसच्चस्स …पे… दुक्खनिरोधगामिनिया पटिपदाय अरियसच्चस्स।
Taṁ kissa hetu? Na hettha, bhikkhave, atthi dhammacariyā, samacariyā, kusalakiriyā, puññakiriyā. Aññamaññakhādikā ettha, bhikkhave, vattati dubbalakhādikā. Taṁ kissa hetu? Adiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ. Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ? Dukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.
Why is that? Because in that place there’s no principled or moral conduct, and no doing what is good and skillful. There they just prey on each other, preying on the weak. Why is that? It’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths. What four? The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.
तस्मातिह, भिक्खवे, ‘इदं दुक्खन्ऽति योगो करणीयो …पे… ‘अयं दुक्खनिरोधगामिनी पटिपदाऽति योगो करणीयो”ति।
Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.
That’s why you should practice meditation …”
सत्तमं।
Sattamaṁ.
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