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The Discourse on the Garden of Delight
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Thus have I heard.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"Once in the past, monks, a certain deity of the host of the Thirty-three gods was revelling in the Garden of Delight, surrounded by a retinue of celestial nymphs, and, endowed and furnished with the five types of celestial sensual pleasure. At that time he spoke this verse:
The abode of the glorious male gods belonging to the host of Thirty-three gods.'
"When this was said, monks, a certain deity replied to that deity in verse -
Impermanent are all activities; their nature is to arise and fall.
Having arisen, they cease; their appeasement is blissful."