{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn3-7.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn3-7.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn3-7.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSamyutta Nikaya III.7\nAtthakarana Sutta\nIn Judgement\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nAt Savatthi. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: \"Just now, lord, as I was sitting in judgment, I saw that even affluent nobles, affluent brahmins, & affluent householders -- rich, with great wealth & property, with vast amounts of gold & silver, vast amounts of valuables & commodities, vast amounts of wealth & grain -- tell deliberate lies with sensual pleasures as the cause, sensual pleasures as the reason, simply for the sake of sensual pleasures. Then, the thought occured to me: 'I've had enough of this judging! Let some other fine fellow be known for his judgments!'\"\n\"That's the way it is, great king! That's the way it is! Even affluent nobles, affluent brahmins, & affluent householders...tell deliberate lies with sensual pleasures as the cause, sensual pleasures as the reason, simply for the sake of sensual pleasures. That will lead to their long-term harm & pain.\"\nThat is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher, said further:\nImpassioned \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with sensual possessions,\ngreedy, dazed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by sensual pleasures,\nthey don't awaken to the fact\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that they've gone too far -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 like fish into trap set out.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Afterwards it's bitter for them:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 evil for them\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the result.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"SN III.7: Atthakarana Sutta","type":"page"}