{"id":"sn32.53","title":"Gods of the Cool Thunderclouds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn32.53","title":"Gods of the Cool Thunderclouds","units":[{"id":"sn32.53:0","sourceIds":["sn32.53:0.1","sn32.53:0.2","sn32.53:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 32.53\n1. Valāhakavagga\nSītavalāhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 32.53\n1. Gods of the Thunderclouds\nGods of the Cool Thunderclouds"}},{"id":"sn32.53:1","sourceIds":["sn32.53:1.1","sn32.53:1.2","sn32.53:1.3","sn32.53:1.4","sn32.53:1.5","sn32.53:1.6","sn32.53:1.7","sn32.53:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yenekadā sītaṁ hotī”ti?\n“Santi, bhikkhu, sītavalāhakā nāma devā.\nTesaṁ yadā evaṁ hoti:\n‘yannūna mayaṁ sakāya ratiyā vaseyyāmā’ti, tesaṁ taṁ cetopaṇidhimanvāya sītaṁ hoti.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yenekadā sītaṁ hotī”ti.\nTepaññāsamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nSeated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why sometimes it becomes cool?”\n“Mendicant, there are what are called gods of the cool thunderclouds.\nSometimes they think:\n‘Why don’t we revel in our own kind of enjoyment?’ Then, in accordance with their wish, it becomes cool.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why sometimes it becomes cool.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn32.53/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."}