sn32.13-52:1.1 At Sāvatthī.
sn32.13-52:1.2 Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:
sn32.13-52:1.3 “Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the gods of warm thunderclouds …
sn32.13-52:1.4 stormy thunderclouds …
sn32.13-52:1.5 windy thunderclouds …
sn32.13-52:1.6 rainy thunderclouds?”
sn32.13-52:1.7 “Mendicant, it’s when someone does good things by way of body, speech, and mind.
sn32.13-52:1.8 And they’ve heard:
sn32.13-52:1.9 ‘The gods of rainy thunderclouds are long-lived, beautiful, and very happy.’
sn32.13-52:1.10 They think:
sn32.13-52:1.11 ‘If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the gods of rainy thunderclouds!’
sn32.13-52:1.12 They give food …
sn32.13-52:1.13 a lamp.
sn32.13-52:1.14 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of the gods of rainy thunderclouds.
sn32.13-52:1.15 This is the cause, this is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the gods of rainy thunderclouds.”