{"id":"thag2.32","title":"Sivaka","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag2.32","title":"Sivaka","units":[{"id":"thag2.32:0","sourceIds":["thag2.32:0.1","thag2.32:0.2","thag2.32:0.3","thag2.32:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 2.32\nDukanipāta\nCatutthavagga\nSivakattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 2.32\nThe Book of the Twos\nChapter Four\nSivaka"}},{"id":"thag2.32:1","sourceIds":["thag2.32:1.1","thag2.32:1.2","thag2.32:1.3","thag2.32:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aniccāni gahakāni,\ntattha tattha punappunaṁ;\nGahakāraṁ gavesanto,\ndukkhā jāti punappunaṁ.","en":"Houses are impermanent—\non and on, life after life.\nI’ve been searching for the house-builder—\npainful is birth again and again."}},{"id":"thag2.32:2","sourceIds":["thag2.32:2.1","thag2.32:2.2","thag2.32:2.3","thag2.32:2.4","thag2.32:2.5","thag2.32:2.6","thag2.32:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Gahakāraka diṭṭhosi,\npuna gehaṁ na kāhasi;\nSabbā te phāsukā bhaggā,\nthūṇikā ca vidālitā;\nVimariyādikataṁ cittaṁ,\nidheva vidhamissatī”ti.\n… Sivako thero ….","en":"I’ve seen you, house-builder!\nYou won’t build a house again.\nYour rafters are all broken,\nyour ridgepole is shattered.\nMy mind is without boundaries:\nin this very life it will dissipate."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag2.32/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."}