Yakkhasaṁyutta 9

Linked Discourses 10.9

1. With Indaka

With the Nun Sukkā (1st)

1 At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.

Now, at that time the nun Sukkā was teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly. Then a native spirit was so devoted to Sukkā that he went from street to street and from square to square, and on that occasion recited these verses:

2 “What’s up with these people in Rājagaha?

They sleep like they’ve been drinking mead!

They don’t attend on Sukkā

as she’s teaching the state free of death.

3 But the wise—

it’s as if they drink it up,

so irresistible, delectable, and nutritious,

like travelers enjoying a cool cloud.”