{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn3.19/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn3.19","id":"suttacentral_sn3.19","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn3.19/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then King Pasenadi of Kosala went up to the Buddha in the middle of the day, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him, \u201cSo, Great King, where are you coming from in the middle of the day?\u201d \u201cSir, here in S\u0101vatth\u012b a financier householder has passed away. Since he died childless, I have come after transferring his fortune to the royal compound. There was eight million in gold coin, not to mention the silver coin. And yet that financier ate meals of sour gruel with false black pepper. He wore clothes consisting of three patches of sunn hemp. He traveled around in a vehicle that was a dilapidated little cart, holding a leaf as parasol.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s so true, Great King! That\u2019s so true! When an untrue person has acquired notable wealth they don\u2019t make themselves happy and pleased. Nor do they make their mother and father, partners and children, bondservants, workers, and staff, and friends and colleagues happy and pleased. And they don\u2019t establish an uplifting religious donation for ascetics and brahmins that\u2019s conducive to heaven, ripens in happiness, and leads to heaven. Because they haven\u2019t made proper use of that wealth, rulers or bandits take it, or fire consumes it, or flood sweeps it away, or unloved heirs take it. Since that wealth is not properly utilized, it\u2019s wasted, not used. Suppose there was a lotus pond in an uninhabited region with clear, sweet, cool water, clean, with smooth banks, delightful. But people don\u2019t collect it or drink it or bathe in it or use it for any purpose. Since that water is not properly utilized, it\u2019s wasted, not used. In the same way, when an untrue person has acquired notable wealth \u2026 it\u2019s wasted, not used. When a true person has acquired notable wealth they make themselves happy and pleased. And they make their mother and father, partners and children, bondservants, workers, and staff, and friends and colleagues happy and pleased. And they establish an uplifting religious donation for ascetics and brahmins that\u2019s conducive to heaven, ripens in happiness, and leads to heaven. Because they make proper use of that wealth, rulers or bandits don\u2019t take it, fire doesn\u2019t consume it, flood doesn\u2019t sweep it away, and unloved heirs don\u2019t take it. Since that wealth is properly utilized, it\u2019s used, not wasted. Suppose there was a lotus pond not far from a town or village with clear, sweet, cool water, clean, with smooth banks, delightful. And people collected it and drank it and bathed in it and used it for their own purpose. Since that water is properly utilized, it\u2019s used, not wasted. In the same way, when a true person has acquired notable wealth \u2026 it\u2019s used, not wasted. As cool water in an uninhabited region evaporates when not drunk; so too when a reprobate acquires wealth, they neither use it themselves nor give it away. When the attentive and sensible acquire wealth, they use it, being dutiful. That boss, having supported the family unit, blameless, goes to a heavenly place.\u201d","title":"Childless (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":511}