Mora Paritta & Other Parittas
โมรปริตร: บทสวดมนต์ที่ช่วยนกยูงทองรอดพ้นภัยร้าย
Summary
The Mora Paritta comes from the Jātaka commentaries: the golden peacock who escaped capture by reciting it morning and evening.
What finally caught him was carelessness and craving, which is the core of the lesson.
A second layer is the ancient false rumour that eating the golden peacock confers agelessness, which is why he was hunted at all.
Key points
The chant comes with a discipline, not in place of one
The peacock was safe as long as he kept reciting, not because the words worked by themselves.
What undid him was carelessness
The day he forgot is the day he was snared, and the story is built to be read that way.
Disinformation is as old as people
The belief that eating him conferred immortality is what drove the hunt — a pattern still recognisable.
The final escape was through understanding
Once caught, what saved him was not the chant but his own wit.