{"id":"iti76","title":"Wishing for Happiness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti76","title":"Wishing for Happiness","units":[{"id":"iti76:0","sourceIds":["iti76:0.1","iti76:0.2","iti76:0.3","iti76:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 76\nTikanipāta\nTatiyavagga\nSukhapatthanāsutta","en":"So It Was Said 76\nThe Book of the Threes\nChapter Three\nWishing for Happiness"}},{"id":"iti76:1","sourceIds":["iti76:1.1"],"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":"iti76:2","sourceIds":["iti76:2.1","iti76:2.2","iti76:2.3","iti76:2.4","iti76:2.5","iti76:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tīṇimāni, bhikkhave, sukhāni patthayamāno sīlaṁ rakkheyya paṇḍito.\nKatamāni tīṇi?\nPasaṁsā me āgacchatūti sīlaṁ rakkheyya paṇḍito, bhogā me uppajjantūti sīlaṁ rakkheyya paṇḍito, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjissāmīti sīlaṁ rakkheyya paṇḍito.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, tīṇi sukhāni patthayamāno sīlaṁ rakkheyya paṇḍito”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, an astute person who wishes for three kinds of happiness should take care of their ethics.\nWhat three?\n‘May I be praised!’ ‘May I become rich!’ ‘When my body breaks up, after death, may I be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm!’\nAn astute person who wishes for these three kinds of happiness should protect their precepts.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti76:3","sourceIds":["iti76:3.1","iti76:3.2","iti76:3.3","iti76:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sīlaṁ rakkheyya medhāvī,\npatthayāno tayo sukhe;\nPasaṁsaṁ vittalābhañca,\npecca sagge pamodanaṁ.","en":"“Wishing for three kinds of happiness—\npraise, prosperity,\nand to delight in heaven after passing away—\nthe wise would take care of their ethics."}},{"id":"iti76:4","sourceIds":["iti76:4.1","iti76:4.2","iti76:4.3","iti76:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akarontopi ce pāpaṁ,\nkarontamupasevati;\nSaṅkiyo hoti pāpasmiṁ,\navaṇṇo cassa rūhati.","en":"Though you do no wrong,\nif you associate with one who does,\nyou’re suspected of wrong,\nand your disrepute grows."}},{"id":"iti76:5","sourceIds":["iti76:5.1","iti76:5.2","iti76:5.3","iti76:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yādisaṁ kurute mittaṁ,\nyādisaṁ cūpasevati;\nSa ve tādisako hoti,\nsahavāso hi tādiso.","en":"Whatever kind of friend you make,\nwith whom you associate,\nthat’s how you become,\nfor so it is when you share your life."}},{"id":"iti76:6","sourceIds":["iti76:6.1","iti76:6.2","iti76:6.3","iti76:6.4","iti76:6.5","iti76:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sevamāno sevamānaṁ,\nsamphuṭṭho samphusaṁ paraṁ;\nSaro diddho kalāpaṁva,\nalittamupalimpati;\nUpalepabhayā dhīro,\nneva pāpasakhā siyā.","en":"The one who associates and the one associated with,\nthe one contacted and the one who contacts another,\nare like an arrow smeared with poison\nthat contaminates the quiver.\nThe attentive, fearing contamination,\nwould never have wicked comrades."}},{"id":"iti76:7","sourceIds":["iti76:7.1","iti76:7.2","iti76:7.3","iti76:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pūtimacchaṁ kusaggena,\nyo naro upanayhati;\nKusāpi pūti vāyanti,\nevaṁ bālūpasevanā.","en":"A man who wraps\nputrid fish in blades of grass\nmakes the grass stink—\nso it is when associating with fools."}},{"id":"iti76:8","sourceIds":["iti76:8.1","iti76:8.2","iti76:8.3","iti76:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tagarañca palāsena,\nyo naro upanayhati;\nPattāpi surabhi vāyanti,\nevaṁ dhīrūpasevanā.","en":"But one who wraps\nsandalwood incense in leaves\nmakes the leaves fragrant—\nso it is when associating with the attentive."}},{"id":"iti76:9","sourceIds":["iti76:9.1","iti76:9.2","iti76:9.3","iti76:9.4","iti76:9.5","iti76:9.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā pattapuṭasseva,\nñatvā sampākamattano;\nAsante nupaseveyya,\nsante seveyya paṇḍito;\nAsanto nirayaṁ nenti,\nsanto pāpenti suggatin”ti.","en":"So, knowing they’ll end up\nlike the wrapping, the astute\nwould shun the wicked,\nand befriend the good.\nThe wicked lead you to hell,\nthe good help you to a good place.”"}},{"id":"iti76:10","sourceIds":["iti76:10.1","iti76:10.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti76/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."}