{"id":"sn32.56","title":"Gods of the Windy Thunderclouds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn32.56","title":"Gods of the Windy Thunderclouds","units":[{"id":"sn32.56:0","sourceIds":["sn32.56:0.1","sn32.56:0.2","sn32.56:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 32.56\n1. Valāhakavagga\nVātavalāhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 32.56\n1. Gods of the Thunderclouds\nGods of the Windy Thunderclouds"}},{"id":"sn32.56:1","sourceIds":["sn32.56:1.1","sn32.56:1.2","sn32.56:1.3","sn32.56:1.4","sn32.56:1.5","sn32.56:1.6","sn32.56:1.7","sn32.56:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yenekadā vāto hotī”ti?\n“Santi, bhikkhu, vātavalāhakā nāma devā.\nTesaṁ yadā evaṁ hoti:\n‘yannūna mayaṁ sakāya ratiyā vaseyyāmā’ti, tesaṁ taṁ cetopaṇidhimanvāya vāto hoti.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yenekadā vāto hotī”ti.\nChappaññāsamaṁ.","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 windy?”\n“Mendicant, there are what are named gods of the windy thunderclouds.\nSometimes they think:\n‘Why don’t we revel in our own kind of enjoyment?’ Then, in accordance with their wish, it becomes windy.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why sometimes it becomes windy.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn32.56/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."}