{"id":"sn11.7","title":"Not Betray","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn11.7","title":"Not Betray","units":[{"id":"sn11.7:0","sourceIds":["sn11.7:0.1","sn11.7:0.2","sn11.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 11.7\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nNadubbhiyasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 11.7\nChapter One\nNot Betray"}},{"id":"sn11.7:1","sourceIds":["sn11.7:1.1","sn11.7:1.2","sn11.7:1.3","sn11.7:1.4","sn11.7:1.5","sn11.7:1.6","sn11.7:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ.\n“Bhūtapubbaṁ, bhikkhave, sakkassa devānamindassa rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n‘yopi me assa supaccatthiko tassapāhaṁ na dubbheyyan’ti.\nAtha kho, bhikkhave, vepacitti asurindo sakkassa devānamindassa cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya yena sakko devānamindo tenupasaṅkami.\nAddasā kho, bhikkhave, sakko devānamindo vepacittiṁ asurindaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ.\nDisvāna vepacittiṁ asurindaṁ etadavoca:\n‘tiṭṭha, vepacitti, gahitosī’ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Once upon a time, mendicants, as Sakka, lord of gods, was in private retreat this thought came to his mind,\n‘I should never betray even a sworn enemy.’\nAnd then Vepacitti, lord of titans, knowing Sakka’s train of thought, approached him.\nSakka saw Vepacitti coming off in the distance,\nand said to him,\n‘Stop, Vepacitti, you’re caught!’"}},{"id":"sn11.7:2","sourceIds":["sn11.7:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Yadeva te, mārisa, pubbe cittaṁ, tadeva tvaṁ mā pajahāsī’ti.","en":"‘Good fellow, don’t give up the idea you just had!’"}},{"id":"sn11.7:3","sourceIds":["sn11.7:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Sapassu ca me, vepacitti, adubbhāyā’ti.","en":"‘Swear, Vepacitti, that you won’t betray me.’"}},{"id":"sn11.7:4","sourceIds":["sn11.7:4.1","sn11.7:4.2","sn11.7:4.3","sn11.7:4.4","sn11.7:4.5","sn11.7:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Yaṁ musā bhaṇato pāpaṁ,\nYaṁ pāpaṁ ariyūpavādino;\nMittadduno ca yaṁ pāpaṁ,\nYaṁ pāpaṁ akataññuno;\nTameva pāpaṁ phusatu,\nYo te dubbhe sujampatī’”ti.","en":"‘Whatever bad things happen to a liar,\nor to someone who slanders the noble ones,\nor to someone who betrays a friend,\nor to someone who’s ungrateful,\nthe same bad things impact\nanyone who betrays you, Sujā’s husband.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.7/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."}