{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn11.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn11.1","id":"suttacentral_sn11.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.1/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, the titans marched against the gods. Then Sakka, lord of gods, addressed the godling Suv\u012bra, \u2018Dear Suv\u012bra, the titans march against the gods! Go, and march against the titans!\u2019 \u2018Yes, lord,\u2019 replied Suv\u012bra. But he fell into negligence. For a second time Sakka addressed Suv\u012bra, \u2018Dear Suv\u012bra, the titans march against the gods! Go, and march against the titans!\u2019 \u2018Yes, lord,\u2019 replied Suv\u012bra. But for a second time he fell into negligence. For a third time Sakka addressed Suv\u012bra, \u2018Dear Suv\u012bra, the titans march against the gods! Go, and march against the titans!\u2019 \u2018Yes, lord,\u2019 replied Suv\u012bra. But for a third time he fell into negligence. Then Sakka addressed the godling Suv\u012bra in verse: \u2018Suv\u012bra, go to that place where you can achieve happiness without working for it or trying hard\u2014 and take me with you!\u2019 \u2018That a lazy man who does no work, and doesn\u2019t do his duty, can fulfill all his desires: Sakka, render me this boon!\u2019 \u2018Suv\u012bra, go to that place where a lazy man who does no work prospers in unending happiness\u2014 and take me with you!\u2019 \u2018O Sakka, first among gods, that we might find the happiness that\u2019s sorrowless, unstressed: Sakka, render me this boon!\u2019 \u2018If there exists anywhere a place where one can live happily without working, that surely would be extinguishment\u2019s path! Go there, Suv\u012bra, and take me with you!\u2019 Since, mendicants, even that Sakka, lord of gods\u2014while living off of the fruit of his good deeds, and ruling as sovereign lord over these gods of the thirty-three\u2014will speak in praise of initiative and energy, you can excel at this, for you who have gone forth in such a well explained teaching and training can try hard, strive, and make an effort to attain the unattained, achieve the unachieved, and realize the unrealized.\u201d","title":"With Suv\u012bra","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":338}