{"id":"sn8.3","title":"Good-Hearted","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn8.3","title":"Good-Hearted","units":[{"id":"sn8.3:0","sourceIds":["sn8.3:0.1","sn8.3:0.2","sn8.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 8.3\n1. Vaṅgīsavagga\nPesalasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 8.3\n1. With Vaṅgīsa\nGood-Hearted"}},{"id":"sn8.3:1","sourceIds":["sn8.3:1.1","sn8.3:1.2","sn8.3:1.3","sn8.3:1.4","sn8.3:1.5","sn8.3:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā vaṅgīso āḷaviyaṁ viharati aggāḷave cetiye āyasmatā nigrodhakappena upajjhāyena saddhiṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā vaṅgīso attano paṭibhānena aññe pesale bhikkhū atimaññati.\nAtha kho āyasmato vaṅgīsassa etadahosi:\n“alābhā vata me, na vata me lābhā; dulladdhaṁ vata me, na vata me suladdhaṁ;\nyvāhaṁ attano paṭibhānena aññe pesale bhikkhū atimaññāmī”ti.\nAtha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso attanāva attano vippaṭisāraṁ uppādetvā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"At one time Venerable Vaṅgīsa was staying near Āḷavī, at Āḷavī’s premier shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa.\nNow at that time Venerable Vaṅgīsa looked down upon other good-hearted mendicants because of his own eloquence.\nThen he thought,\n“It’s my loss, my misfortune,\nthat I look down on other good-hearted mendicants because of my own eloquence.”\nThen, on the occasion of arousing remorse in himself, he recited these verses:"}},{"id":"sn8.3:2","sourceIds":["sn8.3:2.1","sn8.3:2.2","sn8.3:2.3","sn8.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mānaṁ pajahassu gotama,\nMānapathañca pajahassu;\nAsesaṁ mānapathasmiṁ,\nSamucchito vippaṭisārīhuvā cirarattaṁ.","en":"“Give up conceit, Gotama!\nCompletely abandon the different kinds of conceit!\nBesotted with the different kinds of conceit,\nyou’ve had regrets for a long time."}},{"id":"sn8.3:3","sourceIds":["sn8.3:3.1","sn8.3:3.2","sn8.3:3.3","sn8.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Makkhena makkhitā pajā,\nMānahatā nirayaṁ papatanti;\nSocanti janā cirarattaṁ,\nMānahatā nirayaṁ upapannā.","en":"Smeared by smears and slain by conceit,\npeople fall into hell.\nWhen people slain by conceit are reborn in hell,\nthey grieve for a long time."}},{"id":"sn8.3:4","sourceIds":["sn8.3:4.1","sn8.3:4.2","sn8.3:4.3","sn8.3:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na hi socati bhikkhu kadāci,\nMaggajino sammāpaṭipanno;\nKittiñca sukhañca anubhoti,\nDhammadasoti tamāhu pahitattaṁ.","en":"But a mendicant who practices rightly,\na path-victor, never grieves.\nThey enjoy happiness and a good reputation,\nand they rightly call him a ‘Seer of Truth’."}},{"id":"sn8.3:5","sourceIds":["sn8.3:5.1","sn8.3:5.2","sn8.3:5.3","sn8.3:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā akhilodha padhānavā,\nNīvaraṇāni pahāya visuddho;\nMānañca pahāya asesaṁ,\nVijjāyantakaro samitāvī”ti.","en":"So being not hard-hearted, but energetic,\nwith hindrances given up, pure;\nand having completely given up conceit,\nthe one who makes an end with knowledge is assuaged.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.3/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."}