{"id":"iti42","title":"Bright Things","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti42","title":"Bright Things","units":[{"id":"iti42:0","sourceIds":["iti42:0.1","iti42:0.2","iti42:0.3","iti42:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 42\nDukanipāta\nDutiyavagga\nSukkadhammasutta","en":"So It Was Said 42\nThe Book of the Twos\nChapter Two\nBright Things"}},{"id":"iti42:1","sourceIds":["iti42:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti42:2","sourceIds":["iti42:2.1","iti42:2.2","iti42:2.3","iti42:2.4","iti42:2.5","iti42:2.6","iti42:2.7","iti42:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dveme, bhikkhave, sukkā dhammā lokaṁ pālenti.\nKatame dve?\nHirī ca, ottappañca.\nIme ce, bhikkhave, dve sukkā dhammā lokaṁ na pāleyyuṁ, nayidha paññāyetha mātāti vā mātucchāti vā mātulānīti vā ācariyabhariyāti vā garūnaṁ dārāti vā.\nSambhedaṁ loko agamissa yathā ajeḷakā kukkuṭasūkarā soṇasiṅgālā.\nYasmā ca kho, bhikkhave, ime dve sukkā dhammā lokaṁ pālenti tasmā paññāyati mātāti vā mātucchāti vā mātulānīti vā ācariyabhariyāti vā garūnaṁ dārāti vā”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“These two bright things, mendicants, protect the world.\nWhat two?\nConscience and prudence.\nIf these two bright things did not protect the world, there would be no recognition of the status of mother, aunts, or wives and partners of tutors and respected people.\nThe world would become dissolute, like goats and sheep, chickens and pigs, and hounds and jackals.\nBut because the two bright things protect the world, there is recognition of the status of mother, aunts, and wives and partners of tutors and respected people.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti42:3","sourceIds":["iti42:3.1","iti42:3.2","iti42:3.3","iti42:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yesañce hiriottappaṁ,\nsabbadā ca na vijjati;\nVokkantā sukkamūlā te,\njātimaraṇagāmino.","en":"“Those in whom conscience and prudence\nare never found at all,\nhave lost their bright roots,\nand fare on in birth and death."}},{"id":"iti42:4","sourceIds":["iti42:4.1","iti42:4.2","iti42:4.3","iti42:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yesañca hiriottappaṁ,\nsadā sammā upaṭṭhitā;\nVirūḷhabrahmacariyā te,\nsanto khīṇapunabbhavā”ti.","en":"Those in whom conscience and prudence\nare always rightly established,\nthrive in the spiritual life;\nbeing at peace, they will not be reborn again.”"}},{"id":"iti42:5","sourceIds":["iti42:5.1","iti42:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti42/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."}