sn4.21:1.1 So I have heard.
BAGIAN 1
sn4.21:1.2 At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Sakyans near Silāvatī.
sn4.21:1.3 Now at that time several mendicants were meditating not far from the Buddha, diligent, keen, and resolute.
sn4.21:1.4 Then Māra the Wicked manifested in the form of a brahmin with a large matted dreadlock, wearing an antelope hide. He was old, bent double, wheezing, and held a staff made of cluster fig tree wood. He went up to those mendicants and said,
sn4.21:1.5 “You’ve gone forth while young, reverends. With pristine black hair, you’re blessed with youth, in the prime of life, and you’ve never flirted with sensual pleasures.
sn4.21:1.6 Enjoy human sensual pleasures.
sn4.21:1.7 Don’t give up what is apparent in the present to chase after what takes effect over time.”
sn4.21:1.8 “Brahmin, that’s not what we’re doing.
sn4.21:1.9 We’re giving up what takes effect over time to chase after what is apparent in the present.
sn4.21:1.10 For the Buddha says that sensual pleasures take effect over time; they give much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks.
sn4.21:1.11 But this teaching is apparent in the present life, immediately effective, inviting inspection, relevant, so that sensible people can know it for themselves.”
sn4.21:1.12 When they had spoken, Māra the Wicked shook his head, waggled his tongue, raised his eyebrows until his brow puckered in three furrows, and left leaning on his staff.