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Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.103 — 11. Sambodhavagga — Pubbevasambodhasutta

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    Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.103

    Numbered Discourses 3.103

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    11. Sambodhavagga

    11. Awakening

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    Pubbevasambodhasutta

    Before Awakening

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    “Pubbeva me, bhikkhave, sambodhā anabhisambuddhassa bodhisattasseva sato etadahosi:

    “Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought:

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    ‘ko nu kho loke assādo, ko ādīnavo, kiṁ nissaraṇan’ti?

    ‘What’s the gratification in the world? What’s the drawback? What’s the escape?’

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    Tassa mayhaṁ, bhikkhave, etadahosi:

    Then it occurred to me:

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    ‘yaṁ kho lokaṁ paṭicca uppajjati sukhaṁ somanassaṁ, ayaṁ loke assādo.

    ‘The pleasure and happiness that arise from the world: this is its gratification.

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    Yaṁ loko anicco dukkho vipariṇāmadhammo, ayaṁ loke ādīnavo.

    That the world is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback.

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    Yo loke chandarāgavinayo chandarāgappahānaṁ, idaṁ loke nissaraṇan’ti.

    Removing and giving up desire and greed for the world: this is its escape.’

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    Yāvakīvañcāhaṁ, bhikkhave, evaṁ lokassa assādañca assādato ādīnavañca ādīnavato nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññāsiṁ, neva tāvāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya ‘anuttaraṁ sammāsambodhiṁ abhisambuddho’ti paccaññāsiṁ.

    As long as I didn’t truly understand the world’s gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I didn’t announce my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.

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    Yato ca khvāhaṁ, bhikkhave, evaṁ lokassa assādañca assādato ādīnavañca ādīnavato nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññāsiṁ, athāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya ‘anuttaraṁ sammāsambodhiṁ abhisambuddho’ti paccaññāsiṁ.

    But when I did truly understand the world’s gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I announced my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.

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    Ñāṇañca pana me dassanaṁ udapādi:

    Knowledge and vision arose in me:

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    ‘akuppā me vimutti, ayamantimā jāti, natthi dāni punabbhavo’”ti.

    ‘My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there’ll be no more future lives.’”

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    Paṭhamaṁ.

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