{"id":"sn1.35","title":"Fault-Finding Deities","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.35","title":"Fault-Finding Deities","units":[{"id":"sn1.35:0","sourceIds":["sn1.35:0.1","sn1.35:0.2","sn1.35:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.35\n4. Satullapakāyikavagga\nUjjhānasaññisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.35\n4. The Host of a Hundred Felicities\nFault-Finding Deities"}},{"id":"sn1.35:1","sourceIds":["sn1.35:1.1","sn1.35:1.2","sn1.35:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho sambahulā ujjhānasaññikā devatāyo abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā vehāsaṁ aṭṭhaṁsu.\nVehāsaṁ ṭhitā kho ekā devatā bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen, late at night, several glorious deities of the host of the fault-finders, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, and stood in the air.\nStanding in the air, one deity spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn1.35:2","sourceIds":["sn1.35:2.1","sn1.35:2.2","sn1.35:2.3","sn1.35:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aññathā santamattānaṁ,\naññathā yo pavedaye;\nNikacca kitavasseva,\nbhuttaṁ theyyena tassa taṁ.","en":"“Someone who pretends\nto be other than they really are,\nis like a cheating gambler\nwho enjoys what was gained by theft."}},{"id":"sn1.35:3","sourceIds":["sn1.35:3.1","sn1.35:3.2","sn1.35:3.3","sn1.35:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yañhi kayirā tañhi vade,\nyaṁ na kayirā na taṁ vade;\nAkarontaṁ bhāsamānaṁ,\nparijānanti paṇḍitā”ti.","en":"You should only say what you would do;\nyou shouldn’t say what you wouldn’t do.\nThe wise will recognize\none who talks without doing.”"}},{"id":"sn1.35:4","sourceIds":["sn1.35:4.1","sn1.35:4.2","sn1.35:4.3","sn1.35:4.4","sn1.35:4.5","sn1.35:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na yidaṁ bhāsitamattena,\nekantasavanena vā;\nAnukkamitave sakkā,\nyāyaṁ paṭipadā daḷhā;\nYāya dhīrā pamuccanti,\njhāyino mārabandhanā.","en":"“Not just by speaking,\nnor solely by listening,\nare you able to progress\non this hard path,\nby which the attentive practicing absorption\nare released from Māra’s bonds."}},{"id":"sn1.35:5","sourceIds":["sn1.35:5.1","sn1.35:5.2","sn1.35:5.3","sn1.35:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na ve dhīrā pakubbanti,\nviditvā lokapariyāyaṁ;\nAññāya nibbutā dhīrā,\ntiṇṇā loke visattikan”ti.","en":"The attentive certainly don’t act like that,\nfor they understand the way of the world.\nThe attentive are quenched by understanding,\nthey’ve crossed over clinging to the world.”"}},{"id":"sn1.35:6","sourceIds":["sn1.35:6.1","sn1.35:6.2","sn1.35:6.3","sn1.35:6.4","sn1.35:6.5","sn1.35:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho tā devatāyo pathaviyaṁ patiṭṭhahitvā bhagavato pādesu sirasā nipatitvā bhagavantaṁ etadavocuṁ:\n“accayo no, bhante, accagamā yathābālaṁ yathāmūḷhaṁ yathāakusalaṁ, yā mayaṁ bhagavantaṁ āsādetabbaṁ amaññimhā.\nTāsaṁ no, bhante, bhagavā accayaṁ accayato paṭiggaṇhātu āyatiṁ saṁvarāyā”ti.\nAtha kho bhagavā sitaṁ pātvākāsi.\nAtha kho tā devatāyo bhiyyoso mattāya ujjhāyantiyo vehāsaṁ abbhuggañchuṁ.\nEkā devatā bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"Then those deities landed on the ground, bowed with their heads to the Buddha’s feet and said,\n“We made a mistake, sir. It was foolish, stupid, and unskillful of us to presume to attack the Buddha!\nPlease, sir, accept our mistake for what it is, so we will restrain ourselves in future.”\nAt that, the Buddha smiled.\nThen those deities, becoming even more fault-finding, flew up in the air.\nOne deity spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn1.35:7","sourceIds":["sn1.35:7.1","sn1.35:7.2","sn1.35:7.3","sn1.35:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Accayaṁ desayantīnaṁ,\nyo ce na paṭigaṇhati;\nKopantaro dosagaru,\nsa veraṁ paṭimuñcatī”ti.","en":"“If you don’t give your pardon\nwhen a mistake is confessed,\nwith hidden anger and heavy hate,\nyou’re stuck in your enmity.”"}},{"id":"sn1.35:8","sourceIds":["sn1.35:8.1","sn1.35:8.2","sn1.35:8.3","sn1.35:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Accayo ce na vijjetha,\nnocidhāpagataṁ siyā;\nVerāni na ca sammeyyuṁ,\nkenīdha kusalo siyā”ti.","en":"“Suppose no mistake were found,\nand no one here had gone astray:\nif enmities were not settled,\nhow could that be skillful?”"}},{"id":"sn1.35:9","sourceIds":["sn1.35:9.1","sn1.35:9.2","sn1.35:9.3","sn1.35:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kassaccayā na vijjanti,\nkassa natthi apāgataṁ;\nKo na sammohamāpādi,\nko ca dhīro sadā sato”ti.","en":"“Who makes no mistakes?\nWho doesn’t go astray?\nWho doesn’t fall into confusion?\nWho is attentive, ever mindful?”"}},{"id":"sn1.35:10","sourceIds":["sn1.35:10.1","sn1.35:10.2","sn1.35:10.3","sn1.35:10.4","sn1.35:10.5","sn1.35:10.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tathāgatassa buddhassa,\nsabbabhūtānukampino;\nTassaccayā na vijjanti,\ntassa natthi apāgataṁ;\nSo na sammohamāpādi,\nsova dhīro sadā satoti.","en":"“The Realized One, the Buddha,\nsympathetic for all beings:\nthat’s who makes no mistakes,\nand that’s who doesn’t go astray.\nHe doesn’t fall into confusion,\nfor he’s attentive, ever mindful."}},{"id":"sn1.35:11","sourceIds":["sn1.35:11.1","sn1.35:11.2","sn1.35:11.3","sn1.35:11.4","sn1.35:11.5","sn1.35:11.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Accayaṁ desayantīnaṁ,\nyo ce na paṭigaṇhati;\nKopantaro dosagaru,\nsa veraṁ paṭimuñcati;\nTaṁ veraṁ nābhinandāmi,\npaṭiggaṇhāmi voccayan”ti.","en":"If you don’t give your pardon\nwhen a mistake is confessed,\nwith hidden anger and heavy hate,\nyou’re stuck in your enmity.\nI don’t approve of such enmity,\nand so I pardon your mistake.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.35/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}