← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN35.17Connected Discourses 35.17SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 35.172. PairsIf There Were No Gratification (Interior)“Mendicants, if there were no gratification in the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.But since there is gratification in the eye, sentient beings are aroused by it.If the eye had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.But since the eye has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.If there were no escape from the eye, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.But since there is an escape from the eye, sentient beings do escape from it.If there were no gratification in the ear …nose …tongue …body …mind, sentient beings wouldn’t be aroused by it.But since there is gratification in the mind, sentient beings are aroused by it.If the mind had no drawback, sentient beings wouldn’t grow disillusioned with it.But since the mind has a drawback, sentient beings do grow disillusioned with it.If there were no escape from the mind, sentient beings wouldn’t escape from it.But since there is an escape from the mind, sentient beings do escape from it.As long as sentient beings don’t truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they haven’t escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and Divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they don’t live detached, liberated, with a mind free of limits.But when sentient beings truly understand these six interior sense fields’ gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are, they’ve escaped from this world—with its gods, Māras, and Divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—and they live detached, liberated, with a mind free of limits.”