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Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha
Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses Text 6
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English
Bhikkhu Sujato
Linked Discourses 5.6
1. Nuns
With Cālā
At Sāvatthī.
Then the nun Cālā robed up in the morning …
and sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.
Then Māra the Wicked went up to Cālā and said to her,
“Nun, what don’t you approve of?”
“I don’t approve of rebirth, sir.”
“Why don’t you approve of rebirth?
When you’re born, you get to enjoy sensual pleasures.
Who put this idea in your head:
‘Nun, don’t approve of rebirth’?”
“Death comes to those who are born,
when you’re born you undergo sufferings - killing, caging, misery - that’s why you shouldn’t approve of rebirth.
The Buddha taught me the Dhamma
for transcending rebirth,
for giving up all suffering;
he settled me in the truth.
There are beings in the realm of luminous form,
and others stuck in the formless.
Not understanding cessation,
they return in future lives.”
Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Cālā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.
Pali
Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.6
1. Bhikkhunīvagga
Cālāsutta
Sāvatthinidānaṁ.
Atha kho cālā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…
aññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.
Atha kho māro pāpimā yena cālā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā cālaṁ bhikkhuniṁ etadavoca:
“kiṁ nu tvaṁ, bhikkhuni, na rocesī”ti?
“Jātiṁ khvāhaṁ, āvuso, na rocemī”ti.
“Kiṁ nu jātiṁ na rocesi,
jāto kāmāni bhuñjati;
Ko nu taṁ idamādapayi,
jātiṁ mā roca bhikkhunī”ti.
“Jātassa maraṇaṁ hoti,
jāto dukkhāni phussati;
Bandhaṁ vadhaṁ pariklesaṁ,
tasmā jātiṁ na rocaye.
Buddho dhammamadesesi,
jātiyā samatikkamaṁ;
Sabbadukkhappahānāya,
so maṁ sacce nivesayi.
Ye ca rūpūpagā sattā,
ye ca arūpaṭṭhāyino;
Nirodhaṁ appajānantā,
āgantāro punabbhavan”ti.
Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ cālā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Discours reliés 5.6
1. Les moniales
Avec Cālā
À Sāvatthī.
Alors la moniale Cālā s’habilla le matin…
et s’assit au pied d’un arbre pour la méditation du jour.
Alors Māra le Mauvais s’approcha de Cālā et lui dit :
« Moniale, qu’est-ce que tu n’approuves pas ? »
« Je n’approuve pas la renaissance, monsieur. »
« Pourquoi n’approuves-tu pas la renaissance ?
Quand tu nais, tu peux jouir des plaisirs sensuels.
Qui t’a mis cette idée en tête :
“Moniale, n’approuve pas la renaissance” ? »
« La mort vient à ceux qui sont nés ;
quand on naît, on subit des souffrances :
meurtres, emprisonnement et misère.
Voilà pourquoi on ne devrait pas approuver la renaissance.
Le Bouddha m’a enseigné le Dhamma
pour transcender la renaissance,
pour abandonner toute souffrance ;
il m’a établie dans la vérité.
Il est des êtres dans le domaine de la forme lumineuse,
et d’autres qui restent pris dans le sans-forme.
Ne comprenant pas la cessation,
ils reviennent dans des vies futures. »
Alors Māra le Mauvais, pensant : « La moniale Cālā me connaît ! », malheureux et triste, disparut sur-le-champ.
Concepts in this passage
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Death
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Dukkha
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Impermanence
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Nibbana
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Pleasure
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