{"id":"sn17.35","title":"Shortly After He Left","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.35","title":"Shortly After He Left","units":[{"id":"sn17.35:0","sourceIds":["sn17.35:0.1","sn17.35:0.2","sn17.35:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.35\n4. Catutthavagga\nAcirapakkantasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.35\nChapter Four\nShortly After He Left"}},{"id":"sn17.35:1","sourceIds":["sn17.35:1.1","sn17.35:1.2","sn17.35:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate acirapakkante devadatte.\nTatra kho bhagavā devadattaṁ ārabbha bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“attavadhāya, bhikkhave, devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi, parābhavāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left.\nThere the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta:\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall."}},{"id":"sn17.35:2","sourceIds":["sn17.35:2.1","sn17.35:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, kadalī attavadhāya phalaṁ deti, parābhavāya phalaṁ deti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, attavadhāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi, parābhavāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi.","en":"It’s like a banana plant …"}},{"id":"sn17.35:3","sourceIds":["sn17.35:3.1","sn17.35:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, veḷu attavadhāya phalaṁ deti, parābhavāya phalaṁ deti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, attavadhāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi, parābhavāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi.","en":"or a bamboo …"}},{"id":"sn17.35:4","sourceIds":["sn17.35:4.1","sn17.35:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, naḷo attavadhāya phalaṁ deti, parābhavāya phalaṁ deti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, attavadhāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi, parābhavāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi.","en":"or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall …"}},{"id":"sn17.35:5","sourceIds":["sn17.35:5.1","sn17.35:5.2","sn17.35:5.3","sn17.35:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, assatarī attavadhāya gabbhaṁ gaṇhāti, parābhavāya gabbhaṁ gaṇhāti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, attavadhāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi, parābhavāya devadattassa lābhasakkārasiloko udapādi.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.","en":"It’s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall.\nIn the same way, possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity.\nThat’s how you should train.”"}},{"id":"sn17.35:6","sourceIds":["sn17.35:6.1","sn17.35:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn17.35:7","sourceIds":["sn17.35:7.1","sn17.35:7.2","sn17.35:7.3","sn17.35:7.4","sn17.35:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Phalaṁ ve kadaliṁ hanti,\nphalaṁ veḷuṁ phalaṁ naḷaṁ;\nSakkāro kāpurisaṁ hanti,\ngabbho assatariṁ yathā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"“The banana plant is destroyed by its own fruit,\nas are the bamboo and the reed.\nHonor destroys a reprobate,\nas pregnancy destroys a mule.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.35/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."}