{"id":"sn17.6","title":"A Bolt of Lightning","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.6","title":"A Bolt of Lightning","units":[{"id":"sn17.6:0","sourceIds":["sn17.6:0.1","sn17.6:0.2","sn17.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.6\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nAsanisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.6\nChapter One\nA Bolt of Lightning"}},{"id":"sn17.6:1","sourceIds":["sn17.6:1.1","sn17.6:1.2","sn17.6:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe… adhigamāya.\nKaṁ, bhikkhave, asanivicakkaṁ āgacchatu, sekhaṁ appattamānasaṁ lābhasakkārasiloko anupāpuṇātu.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity are grim …\nLet forked lightning fall on whom? Let possessions, honor, and popularity come to a trainee who has not achieved their heart’s desire."}},{"id":"sn17.6:2","sourceIds":["sn17.6:2.1","sn17.6:2.2","sn17.6:2.3","sn17.6:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Asanivicakkanti kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasilokassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe…\nevañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"‘Forked lightning’ is a term for possessions, honor, and popularity.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.6/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."}