{"id":"sn32.54","title":"Gods of the Warm Thunderclouds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn32.54","title":"Gods of the Warm Thunderclouds","units":[{"id":"sn32.54:0","sourceIds":["sn32.54:0.1","sn32.54:0.2","sn32.54:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 32.54\n1. Valāhakavagga\nUṇhavalāhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 32.54\n1. Gods of the Thunderclouds\nGods of the Warm Thunderclouds"}},{"id":"sn32.54:1","sourceIds":["sn32.54:1.1","sn32.54:1.2","sn32.54:1.3","sn32.54:1.4","sn32.54:1.5","sn32.54:1.6","sn32.54:1.7","sn32.54:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yenekadā uṇhaṁ hotī”ti?\n“Santi, bhikkhu, uṇhavalāhakā nāma devā.\nTesaṁ yadā evaṁ hoti:\n‘yannūna mayaṁ sakāya ratiyā vaseyyāmā’ti, tesaṁ taṁ cetopaṇidhimanvāya uṇhaṁ hoti.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yenekadā uṇhaṁ hotī”ti.\nCatupaññāsamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nSeated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why sometimes it becomes warm?”\n“Mendicant, there are what are called gods of the warm thunderclouds.\nSometimes they think:\n‘Why don’t we revel in our own kind of enjoyment?’ Then, in accordance with their wish, it becomes warm.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why sometimes it becomes warm.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn32.54/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."}