{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn11.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn11.10","id":"suttacentral_sn11.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cOnce upon a time, mendicants, several seers who were ethical, of good character, settled in leaf huts on the ocean shore. Now at that time a battle was fought between the gods and the titans. Then the seers thought, \u2018The gods are principled, the titans are unprincipled. We may be at risk from the titans. Why don\u2019t we approach Sambara, lord of titans, and beg him for a pledge of safety?\u2019 Then, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, those seers vanished from those leaf huts on the ocean shore and reappeared in Sambara\u2019s presence. Then those seers addressed Sambara in verse: \u2018The seers have come to Sambara to beg for a pledge of safety. For you can give them what you wish, whether danger or safety.\u2019 \u2018There is no safety for seers, the hated associates of Sakka! Though you beg me for your safety, I\u2019ll only give you fear!\u2019 \u2018Though we beg you for our safety, you give us only fear. This is what we get from you: may endless peril come to you! Whatever kind of seed you sow, that is the fruit you reap. A doer of good gets good, a doer of bad gets bad. You, my dear, have sown your own seed, now you\u2019ll experience the fruit.\u2019 Then those seers, having cursed Sambara, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, vanished from Sambara\u2019s presence and reappeared in those leaf huts on the ocean shore. But after being cursed by the seers, Sambara woke in alarm three times that night.\u201d","title":"Seers by the Ocean","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":266}