Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
3. Bhāra Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
3. On the Burden
Sutta 25
Chanda-Rāga Suttaṃ
Desire and Lust
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī.
The Exalted One said:
"That desire and lust, brethren,
which is in body,
do ye renounce them.
So will that body become rejected,
cut down [27] at the root,
made like the stump of a palm-tree,
made something that has ceased to be,[1]
so that it cannot grow up again in the future.
That desire and lust, brethren,
which is in feeling,
do ye renounce them.
So will that feeling become rejected,
cut down at the root,
made like the stump of a palm-tree,
made something that has ceased to be,
so that it cannot grow up again in the future.
That desire and lust, brethren,
which is in perception,
do ye renounce them.
So will that perception become rejected,
cut down at the root,
made like the stump of a palm-tree,
made something that has ceased to be,
so that it cannot grow up again in the future.
That desire and lust, brethren,
which is in the activities,
do ye renounce them.
So will those activities become rejected,
cut down at the root,
made like the stump of a palm-tree,
made something that has ceased to be,
so that they cannot grow up again in the future.
That desire and lust, brethren,
which is in consciousness,
do ye renounce them.
So will that consciousness become rejected,
cut down at the root,
made like the stump of a palm-tree,
made something that has ceased to be,
so that it cannot grow up again in the future."
[1] Wrongly referred to at Nidd. i, 53, where 'phasso is being discussed.
