{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn10.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn10.5","id":"suttacentral_sn10.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time a certain lay woman had a son named S\u0101nu who had been seized by a native spirit. And as that lay woman wept, on that occasion she recited these verses: \u201cI have heard this from the perfected ones. The native spirits will not mess with anyone who leads the spiritual life by observing the sabbath complete in all eight factors on the fourteenth and the fifteenth days, and the eighth day of the fortnight, as well as on the fortnight of special displays. But now today I see native spirits messing with S\u0101nu.\u201d \u201cWhat you heard from the perfected ones is right. The native spirits will not mess with anyone who leads the spiritual life by observing the sabbath complete in all eight factors on the fourteenth and the fifteenth days, and the eighth day of the fortnight, as well as on the fortnight of special displays. When S\u0101nu regains consciousness tell him this saying of the native spirits: Don\u2019t do bad deeds either openly or in secret. If you should do a bad deed, or you\u2019re doing one now, you won\u2019t be freed from suffering, though you fly away and flee.\u201d \u201cMum, they cry for the dead, or for one who\u2019s alive but missing. I\u2019m alive and you can see me, so mum, why do you weep for me?\u201d \u201cSon, they cry for the dead, or for one who\u2019s alive but missing. But someone who has given up sensual pleasures only to come back here again: they cry for them as well, for though still alive they\u2019re really dead. My dear, you\u2019ve been rescued from hot coals, and you want to plunge right back in them! My dear, you\u2019ve been rescued from the abyss, and you want to plunge right back there! Hurry up, good luck to you! To whom should we complain? A valuable saved from a fire, you want to burn again!\u201d","title":"With S\u0101nu","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":333}