This page is copied by courtesy of the webmaster of TIPITAKA,
The Teachings of the Buddha, (Translation by Myanmar Authors)

Original: http://www.triplegem.plus.com/tipitaka/nandati.htm


2. Nandati Sutta
Discourse on Taking Delight
Nandana Vagga, Devata Samyutta, Sagatha Vagga Samyutta,
Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA SAMYUTTA"
Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon
Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar) Tipitaka Association, 1998
{short description of image}

Discourse on Taking Delight

      12. The Bhagava was at Savatthi... Standing at a suitable place, the deva spoke thus in verse in the presence of the Bhagava:

      "He who has children gets delight from the children. Similarly, he who has cows gets delight from the cows. Men get delight from sense-pleasures;* lacking them, one is deprived of such delight".

      (The Bhagava said:)

      He who has children worries on account of the children. Similarly, he who has cows worries on account of the cows. Men worry on account of sense-pleasures. When one has no sense-pleasures, one is free from worry.


     * sense-pleasures: In the text, upadhi: lit., substrata, support, basis. Here kama upadi is meant.

     The four upadhis:

  1. Khandha-u, the five aggregates which lead to ageing, death, and all sorts of misery, and thus can be said to be their basis.
  2. Kilesa-u, the defilements which lead to woeful existence in the four miserable realms and thus can be said to be their basis.
  3. Abhisankhara-u, accumulation of meritorious and demeritorious actions which lead to the cycle of rebirth, and thus can be said to be their basis.
  4. Kama-u, the five sense-pleasures which according to the deva are the basis of sensual enjoyment.

End of the Nandati Sutta
the second in this vagga.


Back

Top

Next


{short description of image}
{short description of image}

Alphabetical Index