Samyuttanikaya 22.10.5.99

22.10.5.99

Sattame yaṃ mahāsamuddoti yasmiṃ samaye pañcame sūriye uṭṭhite mahāsamuddo ussussati. Dukkhassa antakiriyanti cattāri saccāni appaṭivijjhitvā avijjāya nivutānaṃyeva sataṃ vaṭṭadukkhassa antakiriyaṃ paricchedaṃ na vadāmi. Sā gaddulabaddhoti gaddulena baddhasunakho. Khīleti pathaviyaṃ ākoṭite mahākhīle. Thambheti nikhaṇitvā ṭhapite thambhe. Evameva khoti ettha sunakho viya vaṭṭanissito bālo, gaddulo viya diṭṭhi, thambho viya sakkāyo, gaddularajjuyā thambhe upanibaddhasunakhassa thambhānuparivattanaṃ viya diṭṭhitaṇhāya sakkāye baddhassa puthujjanassa sakkāyānuparivattanaṃ veditabbaṃ. Sattamaṃ.

In the seventh, “that the great ocean”: at the time when, with the rising of the fifth sun, the great ocean dries up. “The making of an end of suffering”: I do not speak of the making of an end—the delimitation—of the suffering of the round [of rebirth] for those who are still shrouded by ignorance, not having penetrated the four truths. “A dog tied by a leash”: a dog bound with a leash. “To a post”: to a large post hammered into the earth. “To a pillar”: to a pillar planted and erected. “Even so indeed”: here, the fool dependent on the round of rebirth is to be understood like the dog; wrong view, like the leash; individual personality, like the pillar; and just like the revolving around the pillar by the dog tied to the pillar with a leash, so is the revolving around individual personality by the ordinary person bound to individual personality by wrong view and craving. The seventh.