{"id":"sn1.41","title":"On Fire","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.41","title":"On Fire","units":[{"id":"sn1.41:0","sourceIds":["sn1.41:0.1","sn1.41:0.2","sn1.41:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.41\n5. Ādittavagga\nĀdittasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.41\n5. On Fire\nOn Fire"}},{"id":"sn1.41:1","sourceIds":["sn1.41:1.1","sn1.41:1.2","sn1.41:1.3","sn1.41:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho aññatarā devatā abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhitā kho sā devatā bhagavato santike imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side,\nand recited these verses in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn1.41:2","sourceIds":["sn1.41:2.1","sn1.41:2.2","sn1.41:2.3","sn1.41:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ādittasmiṁ agārasmiṁ,\nyaṁ nīharati bhājanaṁ;\nTaṁ tassa hoti atthāya,\nno ca yaṁ tattha ḍayhati.","en":"“When your house is on fire,\nyou rescue the pot\nthat’s useful,\nnot the one that’s burnt."}},{"id":"sn1.41:3","sourceIds":["sn1.41:3.1","sn1.41:3.2","sn1.41:3.3","sn1.41:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ ādittako loko,\njarāya maraṇena ca;\nNīharetheva dānena,\ndinnaṁ hoti sunīhataṁ.","en":"And as the world is on fire\nwith old age and death,\nyou should rescue by giving,\nfor what’s given is rescued."}},{"id":"sn1.41:4","sourceIds":["sn1.41:4.1","sn1.41:4.2","sn1.41:4.3","sn1.41:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dinnaṁ sukhaphalaṁ hoti,\nnādinnaṁ hoti taṁ tathā;\nCorā haranti rājāno,\naggi ḍahati nassati.","en":"What’s given has happiness as its fruit,\nbut not what isn’t given.\nBandits take it, or rulers,\nit’s consumed by fire, or lost."}},{"id":"sn1.41:5","sourceIds":["sn1.41:5.1","sn1.41:5.2","sn1.41:5.3","sn1.41:5.4","sn1.41:5.5","sn1.41:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha antena jahati,\nSarīraṁ sapariggahaṁ;\nEtadaññāya medhāvī,\nBhuñjetha ca dadetha ca;\nDatvā ca bhutvā ca yathānubhāvaṁ,\nAnindito saggamupeti ṭhānan”ti.","en":"Then in the end this corpse is cast off,\nalong with all your possessions.\nKnowing this, an intelligent person\nwould enjoy what they have and also give it away.\nAfter giving and using according to their means,\nblameless, they go to a heavenly place.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.41/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."}