2. Kisagotami Sutta
Discourse Concerning Bhikkhuni Kisagotami ,
Bhikkhuni Samyutta
Sagatha Vagga Samyutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka
SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA
SAMYUTTA"
Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon
Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar)
Tipitaka Association, 1998 |
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3. Kisagotami Sutta: Discourse Concerning
Bhikkhuni Kisagotami
164. The Bhagava was Staying at Savatthi During that time Kisagotami the
bhikkhuni, on a certain morning, having re-arranged the robes on her person and
carrying alms-bowl and great robe, entered the town of Savatthi for alms-food.
After going round Savatthi for alms-food and having had her meal she left the
place of alms-gathering and went to the Andhavana Forest to spend the day (in
meditation). Having entered the Andhavana Forest, she sat at the foot of a tree
to spend the day (in meditation). Then Mara the Wicked One, desiring to make
the bhikkhuni feel hair-raising dread and terror and desiring to make her lose
concentration, went to where the bhikkhuni was and spoke in verse to Kisagotami
the bhikkhuni:
"With a sad face like a mother whose son has died, why are
you alone? Coming into the middle of the forest are you looking for a
man?"
Thereupon Kisagotami the bhikkhuni thought: 'Who might be this that speaks
to me in verse? Is he human or non-human?' And then it occurred to her: 'This
is Mara the Wicked who spoke in verse desiring to make me feel hair-raising
dread and terror and desiring to make me lose concentration.' Then, Kisagotami
the bhikkhuni, knowing that it was Mara the Wicked One, replied to Mara the
Wicked One in these verses:
"Friend, I am past losing a son in death. Also, I am past
(looking for) a man. I grieve not, I weep not. No, Mara, I fear you not. I am
free of attachment (to all khandha aggregates); the darkness (of ignorance) has
been destroyed. Having conquered Death's forces, I am free of
defilements."
Mara the Wicked One then realized, "Soma the bhikkhuni knows me,"
and, feeling frustrated and miserable, he vanished thence.
End of the Kisagotami Sutta,
The the third in this vagga.
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