SN4_18: Piṇḍa Sutta

Piṇḍa Sutta - translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

The Buddha:

“You’ve produced demerit, Evil One,

insulting the Tathāgata.

How very happily we live,

we who have nothing.

We will feed on rapture

like the Radiant devas.”2

Notes

1. According to the Commentary, this was a false promise. Māra planned to arrange again that the Buddha wouldn’t get food, but instead would “get” the ridicule of the village youths.

2. This second verse = Dhp 200.

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