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### Sutta Nipata V.15

# Mogharaja-manava-puccha

# Mogharaja's Question

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Read an alternate translation by John D. Ireland

Mogharaja:

> Twice now, O Sakyan,
> I've asked you,
> but you, One with vision,
> haven't answered me.
> When asked the third time
> the celestial seer answers:
> so I have heard.
> This world, the next world,
> the Brahma world with its devas:
> I don't know how they're viewed
> by the glorious Gotama.
> So to the one who has seen
> to the far extreme,
> I've come with a question:
> How does one view the world
> so as not to be seen
> by Death's king?

The Buddha:

> View the world, Mogharaja,
> as void --
> always mindful
> to have removed any view
> about self.

> This way one is above & beyond death.
> This is how one views the world
> so as not to be seen
> by Death's king.

### Note

On viewing the world as void, see S.XXXV.85.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001