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 +====== Rajja Sutta: Rulership ======
 +<span hide>Rajja Sutta</span>
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 +Summary: <span wrap_summarypic>[[.:index#sn04.020.than|{{en:img:question_16.gif}}]]</span>  Mara, seeing that the Buddha has developed the four bases of power (iddhipada), tries to persuade him to give up the monastic life and become a powerful world ruler.
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 +<div #h_tipitakaid>SN 4.20 <span h_ptsid>PTS: [[:en:tipitaka:sltp:SN_I_utf8#pts.116|S i 116]]</span> <span h_altid>CDB i 209</span>
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 +<div #h_doctitle>Rajja Sutta: Rulership</div>
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 +<div #h_docsubtitle2></div>
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 +<div #h_docby>translated from the Pali by</div>
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 +<div #h_docauthor>Thanissaro Bhikkhu</div>
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 +<div #h_copyright>[[#f_termsofuse|{{en:img:d2.png?16x18}}]][[#f_termsofuse| 1999-2018]]</div>
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 +<div #homagetext>[[en:homage|-  Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa  -]]</div>
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 +I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the <span anchor #kosala>Kosalans</span> in a wilderness hut in a <span anchor #himalayas>Himalayan</span> district. Then, as he was alone in seclusion, this train of thought arose in his awareness: "Is it possible to exercise rulership without killing or causing others to kill, without confiscating or causing others to confiscate, without sorrowing or causing others sorrow — righteously?"
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 +<span anchor #mara>Then</span> Mara, the Evil One, knowing with his awareness the train of thought in the Blessed One's awareness, went to him and on arrival said to him: "Exercise rulership, Blessed One! Exercise rulership, O One Well-gone! — without killing or causing others to kill, without confiscating or causing others to confiscate, without sorrowing or causing others sorrow — righteously!"
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 +"But what do you see in me, Evil One, that you say to me, 'Exercise rulership, Blessed One! Exercise rulership, O One Well-gone! — without killing or causing others to kill, without confiscating or causing others to confiscate, without sorrowing or causing others sorrow — righteously!'?"
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 +"Lord, the Blessed One has developed the four bases of power, pursued them, handed them the reins and taken them as a basis, given them a grounding, steadied them, consolidated them, and undertaken them well. If he wanted to, he could resolve on the Himalayas, king of mountains, as gold, and it would become a mountain of gold."
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 +<div freeverse>![
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 +]!<span spkr>[The Buddha:]</span>
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 +<span anchor #gold>The</span> entirety
 +of a mountain of gold,
 +of solid bullion:
 +even twice that
 +wouldn't suffice
 +for one person.
 + Knowing this,
 + live evenly,
 + in tune with the contemplative life.
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 +When you see stress,
 +and from where it comes,
 +how can you incline
 +to sensual pleasures?
 +Knowing acquisition
 +to be a bond in the world,
 + train for
 + its subduing.
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 +Then Mara the Evil One — sad & dejected at realizing, "The Blessed One knows me; the One Well-gone knows me" — vanished right there.
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 +<div navigation>[[./sn04.019.than|{{en:img:left.png }}]] [[../sn05/sn05.001.than|{{ en:img:right.png}}]]</div>
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