{"id":"sn32.55","title":"Gods of the Stormy Thunderclouds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn32.55","title":"Gods of the Stormy Thunderclouds","units":[{"id":"sn32.55:0","sourceIds":["sn32.55:0.1","sn32.55:0.2","sn32.55:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 32.55\n1. Valāhakavagga\nAbbhavalāhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 32.55\n1. Gods of the Thunderclouds\nGods of the Stormy Thunderclouds"}},{"id":"sn32.55:1","sourceIds":["sn32.55:1.1","sn32.55:1.2","sn32.55:1.3","sn32.55:1.4","sn32.55:1.5","sn32.55:1.6","sn32.55:1.7","sn32.55:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yenekadā abbhaṁ hotī”ti?\n“Santi, bhikkhu, abbhavalāhakā nāma devā.\nTesaṁ yadā evaṁ hoti:\n‘yannūna mayaṁ sakāya ratiyā vaseyyāmā’ti, tesaṁ taṁ cetopaṇidhimanvāya abbhaṁ hoti.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yenekadā abbhaṁ hotī”ti.\nPañcapaññāsamaṁ.","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 stormy?”\n“Mendicant, there are what are called gods of the stormy thunderclouds.\nSometimes they think:\n‘Why don’t we revel in our own kind of enjoyment?’ Then, in accordance with their wish, it becomes stormy.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why sometimes it becomes stormy.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn32.55/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."}