{"id":"sn17.11","title":"A Gold Cup","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.11","title":"A Gold Cup","units":[{"id":"sn17.11:0","sourceIds":["sn17.11:0.1","sn17.11:0.2","sn17.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.11\n2. Dutiyavagga\nSuvaṇṇapātisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.11\nChapter Two\nA Gold Cup"}},{"id":"sn17.11:1","sourceIds":["sn17.11:1.1","sn17.11:1.2","sn17.11:1.3","sn17.11:1.4","sn17.11:1.5","sn17.11:1.6","sn17.11:1.7","sn17.11:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe… adhigamāya.\nIdhāhaṁ, bhikkhave, ekaccaṁ puggalaṁ evaṁ cetasā ceto paricca pajānāmi:\n‘na cāyamāyasmā suvaṇṇapātiyāpi rūpiyacuṇṇaparipūrāya hetu sampajānamusā bhāseyyā’ti.\nTamenaṁ passāmi aparena samayena lābhasakkārasilokena abhibhūtaṁ pariyādiṇṇacittaṁ sampajānamusā bhāsantaṁ.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe…\nevañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity are grim …\nWhen I’ve comprehended the mind of a certain individual, I understand:\n‘This venerable would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a gold cup filled with silver powder.’\nBut some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.11/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."}