The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta Nikaya V.8
Sisupacala Sutta
Sister Sisupacala
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
At Savatthi. Then, early in the morning, Sisupacala the
nun put on her robes and, taking her bowl & outer robe, went into
Savatthi for alms. When she had gone for alms in Savatthi and had returned
from her alms round, after her meal she went to the Grove of the Blind to
spend the day. Having gone deep into the Grove of the Blind, she sat down
at the foot of a tree for the day's abiding.
Then Mara the Evil One, wanting to arouse fear,
horripilation, & terror in her, wanting to make her fall from
solitude, approached her & said, "Whose philosophy do you approve
of, nun?"
"I don't approve of anyone's philosophy, my
friend."
[Mara:]
For whose sake
have you shaved your head?
You look like a contemplative
but don't approve of a philosophy,
so why are you wandering here
confused?
[Sister Sisupacala:]
Outside philosophers place
their confidence in views.
I don't approve
of their teaching.
They're not adept
in the Dhamma.
But there is
the Awakened One,
born in the Sakyan clan,
a person without peer:
all-conquering,
Mara's subduer,
everywhere undefeated,
everywhere freed, independent;
endowed with an Eye
all-seeing, reaching the end of
all kamma --
with the ending of acquisitions,
released.
He, that Blessed One,
is my teacher.
It's in his Dhamma
that I delight.
Then Mara the Evil One -- sad & dejected at
realizing, "Sisupacala the nun knows me" -- vanished right
there.
Read an alternate translation by
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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