If There Were No Gratification (Interior)Paṭhamanoceassādasutta

“Mendicants, if there were no gratification in the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.“No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ. But since there is gratification in the eye, sentient beings are aroused by it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa assādo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ sārajjanti. If the eye had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ. But since the eye has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa ādīnavo tasmā sattā cakkhusmiṁ nibbindanti. If there were no escape from the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā cakkhusmā nissareyyuṁ. But since there is an escape from the eye, sentient beings do escape from it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi cakkhussa nissaraṇaṁ tasmā sattā cakkhusmā nissaranti.

If there were no gratification in the ear …No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, sotassa assādo abhavissa … nose …no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, ghānassa assādo abhavissa … tongue …no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, jivhāya assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā jivhāya sārajjeyyuṁ. body …No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, kāyassa assādo abhavissa … mind, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.no cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa assādo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ sārajjeyyuṁ. But since there is gratification in the mind, sentient beings are aroused by it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa assādo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ sārajjanti. If the mind had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa ādīnavo abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmiṁ nibbindeyyuṁ. But since the mind has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa ādīnavo, tasmā sattā manasmiṁ nibbindanti. If there were no escape from the mind, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.No cedaṁ, bhikkhave, manassa nissaraṇaṁ abhavissa, nayidaṁ sattā manasmā nissareyyuṁ. But since there is an escape from the mind, sentient beings do escape from it.Yasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, atthi manassa nissaraṇaṁ, tasmā sattā manasmā nissaranti.

As long as sentient beings don’t truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven’t escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they don’t live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.Yāvakīvañca, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ nābbhaññaṁsu, neva tāva, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā vihariṁsu.

But when sentient beings truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they’ve escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they live detached, liberated, with mind free of boundaries.”Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, sattā imesaṁ channaṁ ajjhattikānaṁ āyatanānaṁ assādañca assādato, ādīnavañca ādīnavato, nissaraṇañca nissaraṇato yathābhūtaṁ abbhaññaṁsu, atha, bhikkhave, sattā sadevakā lokā samārakā sabrahmakā sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya nissaṭā visaññuttā vippamuttā vimariyādīkatena cetasā viharantī”ti.