{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn11.20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn11.20","id":"suttacentral_sn11.20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove. \u201cOnce upon a time, mendicants, Sakka, lord of gods, addressed his chariot handler M\u0101tali, \u2018My dear M\u0101tali, harness the chariot with its team of a thousand thoroughbreds. We will go to a park and see the scenery.\u2019 \u2018Yes, lord,\u2019 replied M\u0101tali. He harnessed the chariot and informed Sakka, \u2018Good fellow, the chariot with its team of a thousand thoroughbreds has been harnessed. Please go at your convenience.\u2019 Then Sakka descended from the Palace of Victory, raised his cupped palms, and revered the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha. So M\u0101tali the chariot handler addressed Sakka in verse: \u2018It\u2019s these who should worship you, namely the humans stuck in their putrid bodies, sunk in a carcass, stricken by hunger and thirst. Why then do you envy those who are homeless, V\u0101sava? Relate the seers\u2019 way of life, let us hear what you say.\u2019 \u2018This is why I envy the homeless, M\u0101tali. When they leave a village, they proceed without concern. They hoard no goods in storerooms, nor in pots or baskets. They seek food prepared by others, and, true to their vows, live on that. The attentive, whose words are full of wisdom, live peacefully and quietly. Gods fight with titans, and mortals fight each other, M\u0101tali. Not fighting among those who fight, quenched among those who have taken up arms, not grasping among those who grasp: they\u2019re who I worship, M\u0101tali.\u2019 \u2018Those who you worship seem to be the best in the world, Sakka. I too will worship those who you worship, V\u0101sava.\u2019 After saying this, Maghav\u0101 the chief, king of gods, Suj\u0101\u2019s husband, having worshiped the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha, climbed into his chariot.\u201d","title":"Homage of the Sa\u1e45gha","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":274}