4. Vijaya 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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4. Vijaya Sutta Discourse-Concerning
Bhikkhuni Vijaya
165. The Bhagava was staying at Savatthi. During that time Vijaya the
bhikkhuni, on a certain morning, having rearranged the robes on her person and
carrying alms-bowl and great-robe, sat at the foot of a tree to spend 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 Vijaya the bhikkhuni:
"You are young and beautiful; I too am young and still
have youthful looks. Come, lady, let's enjoy ourselves to the full, with five
kinds of musical instruments."
Thereupon VIJAYA the bhikkhuni thought: 'Who might be this that speaks to
me in verse? Is he human or non-human?1 And then it occurred to her: This is
Mara the Wicked One desiring to make me feel hair-raising dread and terror and
desiring to make me lose concentration." Then, VIJAYA the bhikkhuni,
knowing that it was Mara the Wicked One, replied to Mara the Wicked One in
these verses:
"O Mara, I give into your keeping as property yours the
visual objects, sounds, odours, tastes, and tangible objects that delight the
mind; as for me I have no need of them. I loath and am ashamed of this putrid
body which has the nature of getting broken up and dissolved; I have uprooted
all craving for sensuality. "There are beings that have reached the Fine
Material Sphere and beings that are in the Non-material Sphere. Besides, there
are those tranquil attainments of concentration (belonging to the Sensual
Sphere). I have destroyed the darkness (of ignorance) that lead to all those
Spheres of existence."
Mara the Wicked One then realized, "Vijaya" the bhikkhuni knows
me," and, feeling frustrated and miserable, he vanished thence.
End of the Vijaya Sutta,
the fourth in this vagga.
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