{"id":"sn6.9","title":"With the Divinity Tudu","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn6.9","title":"With the Divinity Tudu","units":[{"id":"sn6.9:0","sourceIds":["sn6.9:0.1","sn6.9:0.2","sn6.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 6.9\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nTurūbrahmasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 6.9\n1. The Appeal\nWith the Divinity Tudu"}},{"id":"sn6.9:1","sourceIds":["sn6.9:1.1","sn6.9:1.2","sn6.9:1.3","sn6.9:1.4","sn6.9:1.5","sn6.9:1.6","sn6.9:1.7","sn6.9:1.8","sn6.9:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena kokāliko bhikkhu ābādhiko hoti dukkhito bāḷhagilāno.\nAtha kho turū paccekabrahmā abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena kokāliko bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā vehāsaṁ ṭhito kokālikaṁ bhikkhuṁ etadavoca:\n“pasādehi, kokālika, sāriputtamoggallānesu cittaṁ.\nPesalā sāriputtamoggallānā”ti.\n“Kosi tvaṁ, āvuso”ti?\n“Ahaṁ turū paccekabrahmā”ti.\n“Nanu tvaṁ, āvuso, bhagavatā anāgāmī byākato, atha kiñcarahi idhāgato?\nPassa, yāvañca te idaṁ aparaddhan”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nNow at that time the mendicant Kokālika was sick, suffering, gravely ill.\nThen, late at night, the glorious independent divinity Tudu, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the mendicant Kokālika, and standing in the air he said to him,\n“Kokālika, have confidence in Sāriputta and Moggallāna,\nthey’re good monks.”\n“Who are you, reverend?”\n“I am Tudu the independent divinity.”\n“Didn’t the Buddha declare you a non-returner? So what then are you doing back here?\nSee how far you have strayed!”"}},{"id":"sn6.9:2","sourceIds":["sn6.9:2.1","sn6.9:2.2","sn6.9:2.3","sn6.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Purisassa hi jātassa,\nkuṭhārī jāyate mukhe;\nYāya chindati attānaṁ,\nbālo dubbhāsitaṁ bhaṇaṁ.","en":"“A person is born\nwith an axe in their mouth.\nA fool cuts themselves with it\nwhen they say bad words."}},{"id":"sn6.9:3","sourceIds":["sn6.9:3.1","sn6.9:3.2","sn6.9:3.3","sn6.9:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo nindiyaṁ pasaṁsati,\nTaṁ vā nindati yo pasaṁsiyo;\nVicināti mukhena so kaliṁ,\nKalinā tena sukhaṁ na vindati.","en":"When you praise someone worthy of criticism,\nor criticize someone worthy of praise,\nyou choose a losing hand with your own mouth:\nyou’ll never find happiness that way."}},{"id":"sn6.9:4","sourceIds":["sn6.9:4.1","sn6.9:4.2","sn6.9:4.3","sn6.9:4.4","sn6.9:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Appamattako ayaṁ kali,\nYo akkhesu dhanaparājayo;\nSabbassāpi sahāpi attanā,\nAyameva mahantataro kali;\nYo sugatesu manaṁ padosaye.","en":"A losing hand at dice is a trivial thing,\nif all you lose is your money\nand all you own, even yourself.\nWhat’s a really terrible hand\nis to hate the holy ones."}},{"id":"sn6.9:5","sourceIds":["sn6.9:5.1","sn6.9:5.2","sn6.9:5.3","sn6.9:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sataṁ sahassānaṁ nirabbudānaṁ,\nChattiṁsati pañca ca abbudāni;\nYamariyagarahī nirayaṁ upeti,\nVācaṁ manañca paṇidhāya pāpakan”ti.","en":"For a hundred thousand times a hundred million,\ntimes five hundred and thirty-six times a thousand times ten million years\na slanderer of noble ones goes to hell,\nhaving aimed bad words and thoughts at them.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn6.9/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."}