Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Minor Collection (Khuddaka)
Iti 112
The World · Lokasutta
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This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:
“Mendicants, the world has been understood by the Realized One; and he is detached from the world. The origin of the world has been understood by the Realized One; and he has given up the origin of the world. The cessation of the world has been understood by the Realized One; and he has realized the cessation of the world. The practice that leads to the cessation of the world has been understood by the Realized One; and he has developed the practice that leads to the cessation of the world.
In this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—whatever is seen, heard, thought, known, attained, sought, and explored by the mind, all that has been understood by the Realized One. That’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’.
From the night when the Realized One awakens to the supreme perfect awakening until the night he becomes fully extinguished—in the element of extinguishment with no residue—everything he speaks, says, and expresses is real, not otherwise. That’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’.
In this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—the Realized One is the vanquisher, the unvanquished, the universal seer, the wielder of power. That’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
That attentive one is the vanquisher of all who is released from all ties. He has reached ultimate peace: extinguishment, fearing nothing from any quarter.
Sa ve sabbābhibhū dhīro, sabbaganthappamocano; Phuṭṭhāssa paramā santi, nibbānaṁ akutobhayaṁ.
He is the Buddha, with defilements ended, untroubled, with doubts cut off. He has attained the end of all deeds, freed with the ending of attachments.
Esa khīṇāsavo buddho, anīgho chinnasaṁsayo; Sabbakammakkhayaṁ patto, vimutto upadhisaṅkhaye.
That Blessed One is the Buddha, he is the supreme lion, in all the world with its gods, he turns the divine wheel.
Esa so bhagavā buddho, esa sīho anuttaro; Sadevakassa lokassa, brahmacakkaṁ pavattayi.
And so those gods and humans, who have gone to the Buddha for refuge, come together and revere him, even the deities revere him:
Iti devā manussā ca, ye buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gatā; Saṅgamma taṁ namassanti, mahantaṁ vītasāradaṁ.
‘Tamed, he is the best of tamers, peaceful, he is the seer among the peaceful, liberated, he is the foremost of liberators, crossed over, he is the most excellent of guides across.’
