54.
The Discourse on Hot Cloud Devas
603.
At Sāvatthī.
Seated to one side, that monk said this to the Blessed One -
"What, venerable sir, is the cause, what is the condition, whereby it is sometimes hot?"
"There are, monk, gods named hot rain cloud gods.
When for them it occurs thus -
'What if we were to dwell in our own delight,' following that mental aspiration of theirs, it becomes hot.
This, monk, is the cause, this is the condition, whereby it is sometimes hot."
The fifty-fourth.