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# Pasarasisutta 20.2

Pāsarāsisutta 20.2

- **Language:** Pāli

### [20.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26.20.2)

‘nassati vata bho loko, vinassati vata bho loko, yatra hi nāma tathāgatassa arahato sammāsambuddhassa appossukkatāya cittaṃ namati, no dhammadesanāyā’ti.

> ‘Oh lord! The world will be lost, the world will perish! For the mind of the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, inclines to remaining passive, not to teaching the Dhamma.’  
> — The Noble Quest

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## Translations (6)

- [การแสวงหาอันประเสริฐ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~th-dhiranandi.20.2) — Thai
- [The Noble Quest](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~en-sujato.20.2) — English
- [Die edle Suche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~de-sabbamitta.20.2) — German
- [Il discorso sulla ricerca nobile](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~it-giovannizappa.20.2) — Italian
- [Благородный поиск](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~ru-sv.20.2) — Russian
- [Govor o plemenitom traganju](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26~sr-brankokovacevic.20.2) — sr

## Linked texts (4)

- [Mahāvagga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.khandhaka.mahavagga.1.5.4.3) — Pāli
- [Mahāpadānasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.3.2.12) — Pāli
- [Bodhirājakumārasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.85.44.2) — Pāli
- [Brahmāyācanasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.1.6.1.5.2) — Pāli

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