SN 1.71: Ghatva Sutta

SN 1.71

Ghatva Sutta

Having Killed

Translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

PTS: S i 41

CDB i 133

Source: Transcribed from a file provided by the translator.

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As she was standing to one side, a devata recited this verse to the Blessed One:

Having killed what
	do you sleep in ease?
Having killed what
	do you not grieve?
Of the slaying
of what one thing
	does Gotama approve?

[The Buddha:]

Having killed anger
	you sleep in ease.
Having killed anger
	you do not grieve.
The noble ones praise
the slaying of anger
	— with its honeyed crest
	& poison root — 
for having killed it
	you do not grieve.