{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn1.11/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn1.11","id":"suttacentral_sn1.11","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.11/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cOnce upon a time, mendicants, a certain deity of the company of the thirty-three was amusing themselves in the Garden of Delight, escorted by a band of nymphs, and supplied and provided with the five kinds of heavenly sensual stimulation. On that occasion she spoke this verse: \u2018They don\u2019t know pleasure who don\u2019t see the Garden of Delight! It\u2019s the abode of lordly gods, the glorious host of Thirty!\u2019 When they had spoken, another deity replied with this verse: \u2018Fool, don\u2019t you understand the saying of the perfected ones: All conditions are impermanent, their nature is to rise and fall; having arisen, they cease; their settling is such bliss.\u2019\u201d","title":"The Garden of Delight","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":142}