Saṅgāravasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Mahāvaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 19 · Section 606

[606] "Just as, brahmin, a bowl of water heated by fire, boiling and bubbling, giving off steam — if a man with good eyesight were to examine the reflection of his own face in it, he would not know or see it as it really is; even so, brahmin, on whatever occasion one dwells with a mind (citta) obsessed by ill will (byāpāda), overwhelmed by ill will, and does not know or see as it really is the escape (nissaraṇa) from ill will that has arisen — on that occasion one neither knows nor sees as it really is one's own good; on that occasion one neither knows nor sees … the good of others; on that occasion one neither knows nor sees as it really is the good of both. Even hymns long recited do not recur to the mind, let alone those not recited."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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