Delightful

Rāmaṇeyyakasutta

Delightful

Rāmaṇeyyakasutta

EN
Near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove. And then Sakka, lord of gods, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him, “Sir, what is a delightful place?” “Shrines in parks and forests,
PL
Sāvatthiyaṁ jetavane. Atha kho sakko devānamindo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhito kho sakko devānamindo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: “kiṁ nu kho, bhante, bhūmirāmaṇeyyakan”ti? “Ārāmacetyā vanacetyā,
EN
well-made lotus ponds, are not worth a sixteenth part of a delightful human being. Whether in village or wilderness,
PL
pokkharañño sunimmitā; Manussarāmaṇeyyassa, kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ. Gāme vā yadi vāraññe,
EN
in a valley or the uplands, wherever the perfected ones live is a delightful place.”
PL
Ninne vā yadi vā thale; Yattha arahanto viharanti, Taṁ bhūmirāmaṇeyyakan”ti.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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