{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn9-9.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn9-9.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn9-9.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSamyutta Nikaya IX.9\nVajjiputta Sutta\nThe Vajjian Princeling\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nOn one occasion a certain monk, a Vajjian princeling, was dwelling near Vesali in a forest thicket. And on that occasion an all-night festival was being held in Vesali. The monk -- lamenting as he heard the resounding din of wind music, string music, & gongs coming from Vesali, on that occasion recited this verse:\nI live in the wilderness\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 all alone\nlike a log cast away in the forest.\nOn a night like this,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 who could there be\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 more miserable\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 than me?\nThen the devata inhabiting the forest thicket, feeling sympathy for the monk, desiring his benefit, desiring to bring him to his senses, approached him and addressed him with this verse:\nAs you live in the wilderness all alone\nlike a log cast away in the forest,\nmany are those who envy you,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as hell-beings do,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 those headed for heaven.\nThe monk, chastened by the devata, came to his senses.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"SN IX.9: Vajjiputta Sutta","type":"page"}