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XIV: Puggala Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fours
XIV: On Persons
Sutta 138
Nikaṭṭha Puggala Suttaṁ
Subdued
Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.
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On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.
Then the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, these four persons are found existing in the world.
What four?
The subdued[1] in body
but not in mind;
the unsubdued in body
but subdued in mind;
he who is subdued in neither;
he who is subdued in both.
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And how, monks, is a person
subdued in body
but not in mind?
In this case a certain person
makes his bed and lodging
in the lonely glades
and solitude of a forest,
but meanwhile thinks sensual thoughts,
malicious thoughts
and harmful thoughts.
Thus, monks, a person
is subdued in body
but unsubdued in mind.
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And how is a person
unsubdued in body
but subdued in mind?
In this case a certain person
makes not his bed and lodging
in the lonely glades
and solitude of a forest,
yet meanwhile he thinks unworldly thoughts,
thoughts not malicious,
not harmful.
Thus a person
is unsubdued in body
but subdued in mind.
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[141] And how is a person
subdued neither in body
nor in mind?
In this case a certain person
makes not his bed and lodging
in the lonely glades
and solitude of a forest,
yet meanwhile thinks sensual thoughts,
malicious thoughts
and harmful thoughts.
Thus a person
is subdued neither in body
nor in mind.
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And how is a person
subdued both in body
and in mind?
In this case a certain person
makes his bed and lodging
in the lonely glades
and solitude of a forest,
and at the same time
he thinks unworldly thoughts,
thoughts not malicious,
not harmful thoughts.
Thus a person is subdued both in body and in mind.
So these four persons are found existing in the world.'
[1] Nikaṭṭha seems to occur here only in the Nikāyas. It is equal to niggata. Anikaṭṭha-citta = anupaviṭṭha. Comy.
