{"id":"sn11.11","title":"Vows","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn11.11","title":"Vows","units":[{"id":"sn11.11:0","sourceIds":["sn11.11:0.1","sn11.11:0.2","sn11.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 11.11\n2. Dutiyavagga\nVatapadasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 11.11\nChapter Two\nVows"}},{"id":"sn11.11:1","sourceIds":["sn11.11:1.1","sn11.11:1.2","sn11.11:1.3","sn11.11:1.4","sn11.11:1.5","sn11.11:1.6","sn11.11:1.7","sn11.11:1.8","sn11.11:1.9","sn11.11:1.10","sn11.11:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ.\n“Sakkassa, bhikkhave, devānamindassa pubbe manussabhūtassa satta vatapadāni samattāni samādinnāni ahesuṁ, yesaṁ samādinnattā sakko sakkattaṁ ajjhagā.\nKatamāni satta vatapadāni?\nYāvajīvaṁ mātāpettibharo assaṁ,\nyāvajīvaṁ kule jeṭṭhāpacāyī assaṁ,\nyāvajīvaṁ saṇhavāco assaṁ,\nyāvajīvaṁ apisuṇavāco assaṁ,\nyāvajīvaṁ vigatamalamaccherena cetasā agāraṁ ajjhāvaseyyaṁ muttacāgo payatapāṇi vossaggarato yācayogo dānasaṁvibhāgarato,\nyāvajīvaṁ saccavāco assaṁ,\nyāvajīvaṁ akkodhano assaṁ—sacepi me kodho uppajjeyya, khippameva naṁ paṭivineyyanti.\nSakkassa, bhikkhave, devānamindassa pubbe manussabhūtassa imāni satta vatapadāni samattāni samādinnāni ahesuṁ, yesaṁ samādinnattā sakko sakkattaṁ ajjhagāti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, in a former life, when Sakka was a human being, he undertook seven vows. And it was because of undertaking these that he achieved the status of Sakka.\nWhat seven?\nAs long as I live, may I support my parents.\nAs long as I live, may I honor the elders in the family.\nAs long as I live, may I speak gently.\nAs long as I live, may I not backbite.\nAs long as I live, may I live at home with heart rid of the stain of stinginess, freely generous, open-handed, loving to let go, committed to charity, loving to give and to share.\nAs long as I live, may I speak the truth.\nAs long as I live, may I be free of anger, or should anger arise, may I quickly get rid of it.\nIn a former life, when Sakka was a human being, he undertook seven vows. And it was because of undertaking these that he achieved the status of Sakka."}},{"id":"sn11.11:2","sourceIds":["sn11.11:2.1","sn11.11:2.2","sn11.11:2.3","sn11.11:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mātāpettibharaṁ jantuṁ,\nkule jeṭṭhāpacāyinaṁ;\nSaṇhaṁ sakhilasambhāsaṁ,\npesuṇeyyappahāyinaṁ.","en":"A child who respects their parents,\nand honors the elders in the family,\nwhose speech is gentle and courteous,\nand has given up backbiting;"}},{"id":"sn11.11:3","sourceIds":["sn11.11:3.1","sn11.11:3.2","sn11.11:3.3","sn11.11:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Maccheravinaye yuttaṁ,\nsaccaṁ kodhābhibhuṁ naraṁ;\nTaṁ ve devā tāvatiṁsā,\nāhu sappuriso itī”ti.","en":"who’s committed to getting rid of stinginess,\nis truthful, and has mastered anger:\nthe gods of the thirty-three declare\nthem to be a true person.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.11/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."}