Sutta Nipāta 5.16 Mogharājamāṇavapucchā “Dvāhaṁ sakkaṁ apucchissaṁ, (iccāyasmā mogharājā) Na me byākāsi cakkhumā; Yāvatatiyañca devīsi, Byākarotīti me sutaṁ.

The Questions of the Young Man Mogharāja

Twice I asked the Sakyan,

(said the Venerable Mogharāja)

but the One with Vision did not answer me.

Yet I have heard that a divine seer

Ayaṁ loko paro loko, brahmaloko sadevako; Diṭṭhiṁ te nābhijānāti, gotamassa yasassino.

answers by the third time.

This world, the next world,

and the Brahmā world with its devas,

do not comprehend the vision

Evaṁ abhikkantadassāviṁ, atthi pañhena āgamaṁ; Kathaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ, maccurājā na passati”.

of the renowned Gotama.

So I have come with a question

for one of such supreme vision:

Looking upon the world in what way

does the King of Death not see one?

Look upon the world as empty,

Mogharāja, always mindful.

“Suññato lokaṁ avekkhassu, Mogharāja sadā sato; Attānudiṭṭhiṁ ūhacca, Evaṁ maccutaro siyā; Evaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ, Maccurājā na passatī”ti.

Uprooting the view of self,

one crosses beyond death.

Looking upon the world in this way,

the King of Death does not see one.

Mogharājamāṇavapucchā pannarasamā.

The fifteenth: The Questions of the Young Man Mogharāja.