Dighanikaya 5.352

5.352

Idaṃ sutvā brāhmaṇo cintesi – ‘‘attano jīvitaṃ nāma parassa pariccajituṃ dukkaraṃ, atthi nu kho itopi appaṭṭhataro yañño’’ti tato taṃ pucchanto puna ‘‘atthi pana, bho gotamā’’tiādimāha. Tattha pāṇātipātā veramaṇītiādīsu veramaṇī nāma virati. Sā tividhā hoti – sampattavirati, samādānavirati setughātaviratīti. Tattha yo sikkhāpadāni agahetvāpi kevalaṃ attano jātigottakulāpadesādīni anussaritvā – ‘‘na me idaṃ patirūpa’’nti pāṇātipātādīni na karoti, sampattavatthuṃ pariharati. Tato ārakā viramati. Tassa sā virati sampattaviratīti veditabbā.

Having heard this, the brahmin thought: “To surrender one's own life to another is difficult. Might there indeed be a sacrifice involving even less difficulty than this?” Then, inquiring about that, he said again: “Is there, master Gotama,” and so forth. Therein, in “abstinence from killing living beings,” and so forth, “abstinence” (veramaṇī) means refraining (virati). It is threefold: refraining upon occasion (sampattavirati), refraining through undertaking (samādānavirati), and refraining through severance (setughātavirati). Therein, whoever, even without taking the training rules, solely recollecting one's own birth, clan, family lineage, and so forth, thinks, “This is not proper for me,” and does not commit killing living beings and the like, avoids the object that has presented itself, and refrains far from it. For him, that refraining should be understood as “refraining upon occasion.”