Ven. Ñanamoli (trans.) Adittapariyaya Sutra (SN 35.28), Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; G. P. Malalasekera (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names)
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The way to liberation is sacred fire worship. |
"Meditators, ALL is burning! And what is the 'all' that is burning?
"The eye is burning, forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, and whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, that too is burning.
"Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust (craving), with the fire of hatred (aversion/fear), with the fire of delusion (wrong view). I say it is burning with birth, aging and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, with grief, with despair.
- "The ear is burning, sounds are burning...
- "The nose is burning, fragrances are burning...
- "The tongue is burning, flavors are burning...
- "The body is burning, tangibles are burning...
I used to worship fire. |
"Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion. I say it is burning with birth, aging and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, with grief, with despair.
"Meditators, when a noble follower who has heard (the truth) sees thus, that person finds estrangement in the eye, finds estrangement in visible forms, finds estrangement in eye-consciousness, finds estrangement in eye-contact, and whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful- nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact for its indispensable condition, in that too one finds estrangement.
- "One finds estrangement in the ear... in sounds...
- "One finds estrangement in the nose... in fragrances...
- "One finds estrangement in the tongue... in flavors...
- "One finds estrangement in the body... in tangibles...
The devas remained distracted. |
"When one finds estrangement, passion fades out. With the fading of passion, one is liberated. When liberated, there arises knowledge that one is liberated. One understands: 'Birth is exhausted, the pure life has been lived out, what can be done has been done, of this there is no more beyond [to come].'"
That is what the Blessed One said. The ascetics were glad, and they approved of his words.
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