{
  "an3.39:0.1": "Numbered Discourses 3.39 ",
  "an3.39:0.2": "Chapter Devadūta ",
  "an3.39:0.3": "Sutta Refinement ",
  "an3.39:1.1": "“Monks, I lived in refinement, utmost refinement, total refinement. ",
  "an3.39:1.2": "My father even had lotus ponds made in our palace: ",
  "an3.39:1.3": "one where red lotuses bloomed, one where white lotuses bloomed, one where blue lotuses bloomed, all for my sake. ",
  "an3.39:1.4": "I used no sandalwood that was not from Vārāṇasī. My turban was from Vārāṇasī, as were my tunic, my lower garments, & my outer cloak. ",
  "an3.39:1.5": "A white sunshade was held over me day & night to protect me from cold, heat, dust, dirt, & dew. ",
  "an3.39:1.6": "",
  "an3.39:2.1": "“I had three palaces: one for the cold season, one for the hot season, one for the rainy season. ",
  "an3.39:2.2": "During the four months of the rainy season I was entertained in the rainy-season palace by minstrels without a single man among them, and I did not once come down from the palace. ",
  "an3.39:2.3": "Whereas the servants, workers, & retainers in other people’s homes are fed meals of lentil soup & broken rice, in my father’s home the servants, workers, & retainers were fed wheat, rice, & meat. ",
  "an3.39:3.1": "“Even though I was endowed with such fortune, such total refinement, the thought occurred to me: ",
  "an3.39:3.2": "‘When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to aging, not beyond aging, sees another who is aged, he is repelled, ashamed, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to aging, not beyond aging. ",
  "an3.39:3.3": "If I—who am subject to aging, not beyond aging—were to be repelled, ashamed, & disgusted on seeing another person who is aged, that would not be fitting for me.’ As I noticed this, the (typical) young person’s intoxication with youth entirely dropped away. ",
  "an3.39:3.4": "“Even though I was endowed with such fortune, such total refinement, the thought occurred to me: ",
  "an3.39:4.1": "‘When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to illness, not beyond illness, sees another who is ill, he is repelled, ashamed, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to illness, not beyond illness. ",
  "an3.39:4.2": "And if I—who am subject to illness, not beyond illness—were to be repelled, ashamed, & disgusted on seeing another person who is ill, that would not be fitting for me.’ As I noticed this, the healthy person’s intoxication with health entirely dropped away. ",
  "an3.39:4.3": "“Even though I was endowed with such fortune, such total refinement, the thought occurred to me: ",
  "an3.39:5.1": "‘When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to death, not beyond death, sees another who is dead, he is repelled, ashamed, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to death, not beyond death. ",
  "an3.39:5.2": "And if I—who am subject to death, not beyond death—were to be repelled, ashamed, & disgusted on seeing another person who is dead, that would not be fitting for me.’ ",
  "an3.39:5.3": "As I noticed this, the living person’s intoxication with life entirely dropped away. ",
  "an3.39:6.1": "“Monks, there are these three forms of intoxication. ",
  "an3.39:6.2": "Which three? ",
  "an3.39:6.3": "Intoxication with youth, intoxication with health, intoxication with life. ",
  "an3.39:6.4": "“Drunk with the intoxication of youth, an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person engages in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct. ",
  "an3.39:6.5": "Having engaged in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct, he—on the break-up of the body, after death—reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell. ",
  "an3.39:6.6": "“Drunk with the intoxication of health, an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person engages in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct. Having engaged in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct, he—on the break-up of the body, after death—reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell. ",
  "an3.39:6.7": "“Drunk with the intoxication of life, an uninstructed, run-of-the-mill person engages in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct. ",
  "an3.39:6.8": "Having engaged in bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct, he—on the break-up of the body, after death—reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell. ",
  "an3.39:7.1": "“Drunk with the intoxication of youth, a monk leaves the training and returns to the lower life. ",
  "an3.39:7.2": "Drunk with the intoxication of health, a monk leaves the training and returns to the lower life. ",
  "an3.39:7.3": "Drunk with the intoxication of life, a monk leaves the training and returns to the lower life.” ",
  "an3.39:8.1": "‘Subject to birth, subject to aging, subject to death, run-of-the-mill people are repelled by those who suffer from that to which they are subject. ",
  "an3.39:8.2": "",
  "an3.39:8.3": "",
  "an3.39:8.4": "",
  "an3.39:9.1": "And if I were to be repelled ",
  "an3.39:9.2": "by beings subject to these things, ",
  "an3.39:9.3": "it would not be fitting for me, ",
  "an3.39:9.4": "living as they do.’ ",
  "an3.39:10.1": "As I maintained this attitude— ",
  "an3.39:10.2": "knowing the Dhamma without acquisitions— ",
  "an3.39:10.3": "I overcame all intoxication ",
  "an3.39:10.4": "with health, youth, & life ",
  "an3.39:11.1": "as one who sees ",
  "an3.39:11.2": "renunciation as rest. ",
  "an3.39:11.3": "For me, energy arose, ",
  "an3.39:11.4": "unbinding was clearly seen. ",
  "an3.39:12.1": "There’s now no way ",
  "an3.39:12.2": "I could partake of sensual pleasures. ",
  "an3.39:12.3": "Having followed the holy life, I will not return.",
  "an3.39:12.4": ""
}