{"id":"thag5.2","title":"Subhūta","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag5.2","title":"Subhūta","units":[{"id":"thag5.2:0","sourceIds":["thag5.2:0.1","thag5.2:0.2","thag5.2:0.3","thag5.2:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 5.2\nPañcakanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nSubhūtattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 5.2\nThe Book of the Fives\nChapter One\nSubhūta"}},{"id":"thag5.2:1","sourceIds":["thag5.2:1.1","thag5.2:1.2","thag5.2:1.3","thag5.2:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ayoge yuñjamattānaṁ,\npuriso kiccamicchako;\nCarañce nādhigaccheyya,\n‘taṁ me dubbhagalakkhaṇaṁ’.","en":"When a person, wishing for a certain outcome,\napplies themselves where they ought not;\nnot achieving what they worked for,\nthey say: “That’s a sign of my bad luck.”"}},{"id":"thag5.2:2","sourceIds":["thag5.2:2.1","thag5.2:2.2","thag5.2:2.3","thag5.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Abbūḷhaṁ aghagataṁ vijitaṁ,\nEkañce ossajeyya kalīva siyā;\nSabbānipi ce ossajeyya andhova siyā,\nSamavisamassa adassanato.","en":"When a misfortune is extracted and beaten,\nto surrender it in part would be like losing at dice;\nbut to surrender it all you’d have to be blind,\nnot seeing the even and the uneven."}},{"id":"thag5.2:3","sourceIds":["thag5.2:3.1","thag5.2:3.2","thag5.2:3.3","thag5.2:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yañhi kayirā tañhi vade,\nyaṁ na kayirā na taṁ vade;\nAkarontaṁ bhāsamānaṁ,\nparijānanti paṇḍitā.","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":"thag5.2:4","sourceIds":["thag5.2:4.1","thag5.2:4.2","thag5.2:4.3","thag5.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathāpi ruciraṁ pupphaṁ,\nvaṇṇavantaṁ agandhakaṁ;\nEvaṁ subhāsitā vācā,\naphalā hoti akubbato.","en":"Just like a glorious flower\nthat’s colorful but lacks fragrance;\nwell-spoken speech is fruitless\nfor one who does not act on it."}},{"id":"thag5.2:5","sourceIds":["thag5.2:5.1","thag5.2:5.2","thag5.2:5.3","thag5.2:5.4","thag5.2:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathāpi ruciraṁ pupphaṁ,\nVaṇṇavantaṁ sugandhakaṁ;\nEvaṁ subhāsitā vācā,\nSaphalā hoti kubbato”ti.\n… Subhūto thero ….","en":"Just like a glorious flower\nthat’s both colorful and fragrant,\nwell-spoken speech is fruitful\nfor one who acts on it."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag5.2/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."}