The closing of the passage on urgency, reworded for lay chanters who have gone for refuge rather than gone forth.
- When chanted
- Chanted by lay people in place of the closing lines of the passage on urgency, which are phrased for those who have gone forth.
A note on this chant. The book prints this chant in Pali only, with no Thai translation. The English here is a working translation prepared for this edition — it is not the book's own, and has not yet been checked by a teacher.
Historical background
This is a variant rather than a chant of its own. The book prints it not among the chants but inside the explanatory section on the morning service, alongside notes on which words lay chanters substitute.
It exists because the parent passage ends in words only a monastic can say honestly. Its closing lines describe having gone forth from home into homelessness and having taken up the training and livelihood of the bhikkhus — a description of a life, not a wish. A lay chanter reciting them would be describing somebody else.
The book prints no Thai rendering and no title for it. The title and identifier used in this app are the app's own.
Meaning and purpose
The substitution is precise. Where the monastic version has the reciters going forth for the sake of the Blessed One, this has them going to him for refuge, and to the Dhamma and the Bhikkhu Sangha with him. Refuge is available to anyone; going forth is not. Everything else in the sentence is left standing.
The phrase that carries the change is ยะถาสัตติ ยะถาพะลัง, as far as ability and strength allow. It is not a lowering of the standard but a statement of scope, and it is what makes the sentence sayable by someone with a household, work and obligations that a monastic does not have.
The last line is then identical to the monastic one, word for word: that this practice lead to the ending of this whole mass of suffering. That is the point of printing the variant at all. What is adjusted is the description of the life; the aim it is pointed at is not adjusted, and the book takes some trouble to show that it is not.
The chant
As the book prints it: page 8 →
จิระปะรินิพพุตัมปิ ตัง ภะคะวันตัง สะระณัง คะโต,
Cira-parinibbutampi taṃ bhagavantaṃ saraṇaṃ gato,
Having gone for refuge to that Blessed One, though long since attained to final Nibbāna,
ธัมมัญจะ ภิกขุสังฆัญจะ ตัสสะ ภะคะวะโต สาสะนัง,
Dhammañca bhikkhusaṅghañca tassa bhagavato sāsanaṃ,
and to the Dhamma and the Bhikkhu Sangha, the teaching of that Blessed One,
ยะถาสัตติ ยะถาพะลัง มะนะสิกะโรมะ,
Yathāsatti yathābalaṃ manasikaroma,
we attend to it as far as our ability and strength allow,
อะนุปะฏิปัชชามะ,
Anupaṭipajjāma,
and practise accordingly.
สา สา โน ปะฏิปัตติ,
Sā sā no paṭipatti,
May that practice of ours
อิมัสสะ เกวะลัสสะ ทุกขักขันธัสสะ อันตะกิริยายะ สังวัตตะตูติ.
Imassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa antakiriyāya saṃvattatūti.
lead to the ending of this whole mass of suffering.