← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN35.13Connected Discourses 35.13SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 35.132. PairsBefore My Awakening (Interior)At 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 the eye …ear …nose …tongue …body …and mind?’Then it occurred to me:‘The pleasure and happiness that arise from the eye: this is its gratification.That the eye is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback.Removing and giving up desire and greed for the eye: this is its escape.The pleasure and happiness that arise from the ear …nose …tongue …body …mind: this is its gratification.That the mind is impermanent, suffering, and perishable: this is its drawback.Removing and giving up desire and greed for the mind: this is its escape.’As long as I didn’t truly understand these six interior sense fields’ 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 six interior sense fields’ 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.’”