← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN22.26Connected Discourses 22.26SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 22.263. The BurdenGratificationAt Sāvatthī.“Mendicants, before my awakening—when I was still unawakened but intent on awakening—I thought:‘What’s the gratification, the drawback, and the escape when it comes to form …feeling …perception …choices …and consciousness?’Then it occurred to me:‘The pleasure and happiness that arise from form: this is its gratification.That form is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback.Removing and giving up desire and greed for form: this is its escape.The pleasure and happiness that arise from feeling …perception …choices …consciousness: this is its gratification.That consciousness is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback.Removing and giving up desire and greed for consciousness: this is its escape.’As long as I didn’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I didn’t announce my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and Divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.But when I did truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape in this way for what they are, I announced my supreme perfect awakening in this world with its gods, Māras, and Divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans.Knowledge and vision arose in me:‘My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there’ll be no more future lives.’”