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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

SN17: Linked Discourses on Possessions, Honour, and Popularity

I. The First Chapter — SN17.10: With Verses

1At Sāvatthī.

“Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal …

Take a case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.

Take another case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by lack of honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.

And take another case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by both honor and lack of honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.

So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”


2That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:

3“Whether they’re honored
or not honored, or both,
their immersion doesn’t waver
as they live diligently.

4They persistently practice absorption
with subtle view and discernment.
Rejoicing in the ending of grasping,
they’re said to be a good person.”


1Sāvatthiyaṁ vihārati.

"Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko … pe … adhigamāya.

Idhāhaṁ, bhikkhave, ekaccaṁ puggalaṁ passāmi sakkārena abhibhūtaṁ pariyādiṇṇacittaṁ, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapannaṁ.

Idha panāhaṁ, bhikkhave, ekaccaṁ puggalaṁ passāmi asakkārena abhibhūtaṁ pariyādiṇṇacittaṁ, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapannaṁ.

Idha panāhaṁ, bhikkhave, ekaccaṁ puggalaṁ passāmi sakkārena ca asakkārena ca tadubhayena abhibhūtaṁ pariyādiṇṇacittaṁ, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapannaṁ.

Evaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko … pe … evañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban"ti.


2Idamavoca bhagavā. Idaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā: 

3"Yassa sakkariyamānassa,
asakkārena cūbhayaṁ;
Samādhi na vikampati,
appamāṇavihārino.

4Taṁ jhāyinaṁ sātatikaṁ,
sukhumaṁ diṭṭhivipassakaṁ;
Upādānakkhayārāmaṁ,
āhu sappuriso itī"ti.


Dasamaṁ.
Paṭhamo vaggo.

5Dāruṇo baḷisaṁ kummaṁ,
dīghalomi ca mīḷhakaṁ;
Asani diddhaṁ siṅgālaṁ,
verambhena sagāthakanti.