{"id":"sn1.11","title":"The Garden of Delight","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.11","title":"The Garden of Delight","units":[{"id":"sn1.11:0","sourceIds":["sn1.11:0.1","sn1.11:0.2","sn1.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.11\n2. Nandanavagga\nNandanasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.11\n2. The Garden of Delight\nThe Garden of Delight"}},{"id":"sn1.11:1","sourceIds":["sn1.11:1.1","sn1.11:1.2","sn1.11:1.3","sn1.11:1.4","sn1.11:1.5","sn1.11:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“bhikkhavo”ti.\n“Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThere the Buddha addressed the mendicants,\n“Mendicants!”\n“Venerable sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn1.11:2","sourceIds":["sn1.11:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Bhūtapubbaṁ, bhikkhave, aññatarā tāvatiṁsakāyikā devatā nandane vane accharāsaṅghaparivutā dibbehi pañcahi kāmaguṇehi samappitā samaṅgībhūtā paricārayamānā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"“Once upon a time, mendicants, a certain deity of the company of the thirty-three was amusing themselves in the Garden of Delight, escorted by a band of nymphs, and supplied and provided with the five kinds of heavenly sensual stimulation. On that occasion she spoke this verse:"}},{"id":"sn1.11:3","sourceIds":["sn1.11:3.1","sn1.11:3.2","sn1.11:3.3","sn1.11:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Na te sukhaṁ pajānanti,\nye na passanti nandanaṁ;\nĀvāsaṁ naradevānaṁ,\ntidasānaṁ yasassinan’ti.","en":"‘They don’t know pleasure\nwho don’t see the Garden of Delight!\nIt’s the abode of lordly gods,\nthe glorious host of Thirty!’"}},{"id":"sn1.11:4","sourceIds":["sn1.11:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, bhikkhave, aññatarā devatā taṁ devataṁ gāthāya paccabhāsi:","en":"When they had spoken, another deity replied with this verse:"}},{"id":"sn1.11:5","sourceIds":["sn1.11:5.1","sn1.11:5.2","sn1.11:5.3","sn1.11:5.4","sn1.11:5.5","sn1.11:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Na tvaṁ bāle pajānāsi,\nyathā arahataṁ vaco;\nAniccā sabbasaṅkhārā,\nuppādavayadhammino;\nUppajjitvā nirujjhanti,\ntesaṁ vūpasamo sukho’”ti.","en":"‘Fool, don’t you understand\nthe saying of the perfected ones:\nAll conditions are impermanent,\ntheir nature is to rise and fall;\nhaving arisen, they cease;\ntheir settling is such bliss.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.11/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."}