{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti41/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti41","id":"suttacentral_iti41","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti41/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cThose sentient beings are truly bereft, mendicants, who are bereft of noble wisdom. They live unhappily in this very life\u2014with distress, anguish, and fever\u2014 and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a bad rebirth. Those sentient beings are not bereft who are not bereft of noble wisdom. In this very life they\u2019re happy\u2014free of distress, anguish, and fever\u2014 and when the body breaks up, after death, they can expect a good rebirth.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cSee the world with its gods, bereft of wisdom, habituated to name and form, imagining this is truth. Wisdom is best in the world, as it leads to penetration, through which one rightly understands the ending of rebirth and continued existence. Gods and humans envy them, the Buddhas, ever mindful, of laughing wisdom, bearing their final body.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Bereft of Wisdom","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":174}