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Snp, part 43
Eight on the Ultimate · Paramaṭṭhakasutta
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If, maintaining that theirs is the “ultimate” view, a personage makes it out to be highest in the world; then they declare all others are “lesser”; that’s why they’re not beyond disputes.
If they see an advantage for themselves in what’s seen, heard, or thought; or in precepts or vows, in that case, having adopted that one alone, they see all others as inferior.
Those who are skilled say that, too, is a knot, relying on which people see others as lesser. That’s why a mendicant ought not rely on what’s seen, heard, or thought, or on precepts and vows.
Taṁ vāpi ganthaṁ kusalā vadanti, Yaṁ nissito passati hīnamaññaṁ; Tasmā hi diṭṭhaṁ va sutaṁ mutaṁ vā, Sīlabbataṁ bhikkhu na nissayeyya.
Nor would they form a view about the world through a notion or through precepts and vows. They would never represent themselves as “equal”, nor conceive themselves “worse” or “better”.
Diṭṭhimpi lokasmiṁ na kappayeyya, Ñāṇena vā sīlavatena vāpi; Samoti attānamanūpaneyya, Hīno na maññetha visesi vāpi.
What was picked up has been set down and is not grasped again; they form no dependency even on notions. They follow no side among the factions, and believe in no view at all.
Attaṁ pahāya anupādiyāno, Ñāṇepi so nissayaṁ no karoti; Sa ve viyattesu na vaggasārī, Diṭṭhimpi so na pacceti kiñci.
One here who has no wish for either end— for any state of existence in this life or the next— has adopted no dogma at all after judging among the teachings.
For them not even the tiniest idea is formulated here regarding what is seen, heard, or thought. That brahmin does not grasp any view— how could anyone in this world judge them?
They don’t make things up or promote them, and don’t subscribe to any of the doctrines. The brahmin has no need to be led by precept or vow; gone to the far shore, one such does not return.
Na kappayanti na purekkharonti, Dhammāpi tesaṁ na paṭicchitāse; Na brāhmaṇo sīlavatena neyyo, Pāraṅgato na pacceti tādīti. Paramaṭṭhakasuttaṁ pañcamaṁ.
