The Lion’s Roar at the Monastery of Lady Udumbarikā 12.1-19

12.1

Puna caparaṃ, nigrodha, tapassī tathāgatassa vā tathāgatasāvakassa vā dhammaṃ desentassa santaṃyeva pariyāyaṃ anuññeyyaṃ nānujānāti …pe…

Furthermore, a mortifier disagrees with the way that the Realized One or their disciple teaches Dhamma, even when they make a valid point.

12.2

ayampi kho, nigrodha, tapassino upakkileso hoti.

This too is a defect in that mortifier.

12.3

Puna caparaṃ, nigrodha, tapassī kodhano hoti upanāhī.

Furthermore, a mortifier is irritable and acrimonious …

12.4

Yampi, nigrodha, tapassī kodhano hoti upanāhī.

12.5

Ayampi kho, nigrodha, tapassino upakkileso hoti.

12.6

Puna caparaṃ, nigrodha, tapassī makkhī hoti paḷāsī …pe…

offensive and contemptuous …

12.7

issukī hoti maccharī …

jealous and stingy …

12.8

saṭho hoti māyāvī …

devious and deceitful …

12.9

thaddho hoti atimānī …

obstinate and arrogant …

12.10

pāpiccho hoti pāpikānaṃ icchānaṃ vasaṃ gato …

they have corrupt wishes, falling under the sway of corrupt wishes …

12.11

micchādiṭṭhiko hoti antaggāhikāya diṭṭhiyā samannāgato …

they have wrong view, being attached to an extremist view …

12.12

sandiṭṭhiparāmāsī hoti ādhānaggāhī duppaṭinissaggī.

they’re attached to their own views, holding them tight, and refusing to let go.

12.13

Yampi, nigrodha, tapassī sandiṭṭhiparāmāsī hoti ādhānaggāhī duppaṭinissaggī.

12.14

Ayampi kho, nigrodha, tapassino upakkileso hoti.

This too is a defect in that mortifier.

12.15

Taṃ kiṃ maññasi, nigrodha,

What do you think, Nigrodha?

12.16

yadime tapojigucchā upakkilesā vā anupakkilesā vā”ti?

Are such mortifications defective or not?”

12.17

“Addhā kho ime, bhante, tapojigucchā upakkilesā, no anupakkilesā.

“Clearly, sir, they’re defective.

12.18

Ṭhānaṃ kho panetaṃ, bhante, vijjati yaṃ idhekacco tapassī sabbeheva imehi upakkilesehi samannāgato assa;

It’s possible that a mortifier might have all of these defects,

12.19

ko pana vādo aññataraññatarenā”ti.

let alone one or other of them.”