{"id":"sn32.57","title":"Gods of the Rainy Thunderclouds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn32.57","title":"Gods of the Rainy Thunderclouds","units":[{"id":"sn32.57:0","sourceIds":["sn32.57:0.1","sn32.57:0.2","sn32.57:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 32.57\n1. Valāhakavagga\nVassavalāhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 32.57\n1. Gods of the Thunderclouds\nGods of the Rainy Thunderclouds"}},{"id":"sn32.57:1","sourceIds":["sn32.57:1.1","sn32.57:1.2","sn32.57:1.3","sn32.57:1.4","sn32.57:1.5","sn32.57:1.6","sn32.57:1.7","sn32.57:1.8","sn32.57:1.9","sn32.57:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yenekadā devo vassatī”ti?\n“Santi, bhikkhu, vassavalāhakā nāma devā.\nTesaṁ yadā evaṁ hoti:\n‘yannūna mayaṁ sakāya ratiyā vaseyyāmā’ti, tesaṁ taṁ cetopaṇidhimanvāya devo vassati.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yenekadā devo vassatī”ti.\nSattapaññāsamaṁ.\nSattapaññāsasuttantaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.\nValāhakavaggo paṭhamo.","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 the heavens rain?”\n“Mendicant, there are what are called gods of the rainy thunderclouds.\nSometimes they think:\n‘Why don’t we revel in our own kind of enjoyment?’ Then, in accordance with their wish, the heavens rain down.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why sometimes the heavens rain.”"}},{"id":"sn32.57:2","sourceIds":["sn32.57:2.0","sn32.57:2.1","sn32.57:2.2","sn32.57:2.3","sn32.57:2.4","sn32.57:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nSuddhikaṁ sucaritañca,\ndānūpakārapaññāsaṁ;\nSītaṁ uṇhañca abbhañca,\nvātavassavalāhakāti.\nValāhakasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.","en":"The Linked Discourses on gods of the clouds are complete."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn32.57/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."}