[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras of the Great Collection](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata) › [Sūryagarbha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha) › [འཕགས་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྡེ་ཉི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo) › [The Quintessence of the Sun](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000) › 1.14 # འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 1.14 The Quintessence of the Sun 1.14 - **Language:** English ### [1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1.14) Due to the strength of their erudition or due to the influence of remaining in households, those monks who engage in negative actions will then steal and misappropriate the resources and possessions—houses, fields, monastic compounds, parks, male and female servants, and cattle—that have otherwise been dedicated to support the side of virtue by faithful members of the kṣatriya class, the brāhmaṇa class, the vaiśya class, and the śūdra class who have all donated this to be used by monks that abide by the Dharma and possess a wealth of qualities. Such will be the evil behavior of those fools.” At this point King Bimbisāra asked the Blessed One, “Respected Blessed One, if such undesirable consequences are experienced by ordained monks who steal and use for themselves the resources and possessions that have been dedicated to monks who abide by the Dharma and possess a wealth of qualities, what analogy would illustrate the mass of nonvirtue generated by householders who steal and use for themselves the resources and possessions that have been dedicated to monks who abide by the Dharma?” The Blessed One replied, “Tell me, Your Majesty, what is the point of your question?” “Respected Blessed One, I²² donate resources and possessions to those monks who abide by the Dharma and who possess a wealth of qualities—I do not steal them. However, in the future, there will be members of the kṣatriya class, the brāhmaṇa class, the vaiśya class, and the śūdra class who lack faith and are not afraid of the afterlife. They will steal and use for themselves the resources and possessions that have been dedicated to monks who abide by the Dharma and possess a wealth of qualities. What troubles will they experience?” “Your Majesty,” replied the Blessed One, - [Previous: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1.13) - [Next: 1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1.15) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྡེ་ཉི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo.1.14) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.mahasamnipata.suryagarbha*bo~en-84000.1.14) · Pramāṇa