The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta Nikaya V.4
Vijaya Sutta
Vijaya
Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
Setting at Savatthi. Then, in the morning, the
bhikkhuni Vijaya dressed ... she sat down at the foot of a tree for the
day's abiding.
Then Mara the Evil One, desiring to arouse fear,
trepidation, and terror in the bhikkhuni Vijaya,
desiring to make her fall away from concentration, approached her and
addressed her in verse: [131]
"You are so young and beautiful,
And I too am in the bloom of youth.
Come, noble lady, let us rejoice
With the music of a fivefold ensemble."
Then it occurred to the bhikkhuni Vijaya: "Now who
is this...? This is Mara the Evil One ... desiring to make me fall away
from concentration."
Then the bhikkhuni Vijaya, having understood,
"This is Mara the Evil One," replied to him in verses:
"Forms and sounds, tastes and odours,
Tactile objects that delight the mind:
I offer them right back to you,
For I, O Mara, do not need them.
I am repelled and humiliated
By this foul, putrid body,
Subject to break up, fragile:
I've uprooted sensual craving.
As to those beings who fare amidst form,
And those who abide in the formless,
And those peaceful attainments too:
Everywhere darkness has been destroyed."
Then Mara the Evil One, realizing "The bhikkhuni
Vijaya knows me," sad and disappointed, disappeared right there.
Read an alternate translation by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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