e, generosity was surely intended to outshine his own death, pain, feeling slighted and despair. goodness. He feared to lose his own position — so Sakka • everything that evolves must also decay: When thiecided to use his powers to reduce Visayha to poverty Three Universal Characteristics are the r

, honour, praise and worldly happiness shining forth its light for the benefit of the manyfolk. has suffering and change as its nature. Because of Sakka, the king of heaven, felt a warming of his throne as the lack of such elation and disappointment, they the result of Visayha's generosity and thoug

lt that such words showed that Dhamma must be dead. The woman went to a ceremony and started to perform a rite in the memory of the dead `Dhamma'. Sakka's throne became heated and hearing her story used his powers to reconcile the old woman with her son and daughter-in-law. The story was relate