Devatāsaṁyutta 80

Linked Discourses 1.80

8. Slain

Lamp

1 “What’s the lamp for the world?

What in the world is wakeful?

Who are one’s work colleagues?

What is one’s walk of life?

2 What nurtures the idle and the tireless,

like a mother her child?

By what do the creatures who live off the earth

sustain their life?”

3 “Wisdom is the lamp for the world.

Mindfulness in the world is wakeful.

Cattle are one’s work colleagues,

and the furrow is one’s walk of life.

4 Rain nurtures the idle and the tireless,

like a mother her child.

The creatures who live off the earth

sustain their life by rain.”