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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

1. On Deities

VIII. Incinerated — SN1.75: Afraid

1“Why are so many people here afraid,
when the path has been taught with so many dimensions?
I ask you, Gotama, whose wisdom is vast:
Standing on what need one not fear the next world?”

2“When speech and mind are directed right,
and you don’t do anything bad with the body
while dwelling at home with plenty of food and drink.
Faithful, gentle, charitable, and kind:
standing on these four principles,
standing on the teaching one need not fear the next world.”

1"Kiṁsūdha bhītā janatā anekā,
Maggo canekāyatanappavutto;
Pucchāmi taṁ gotama bhūripañña,
Kismiṁ ṭhito paralokaṁ na bhāye"ti.

2"Vācaṁ manañca paṇidhāya sammā,
Kāyena pāpāni akubbamāno;
Bahvannapānaṁ gharamāvasanto,
Saddho mudū saṁvibhāgī vadaññū;
Etesu dhammesu ṭhito catūsu,
Dhamme ṭhito paralokaṁ na bhāye"ti.