一部于祇陀林对游行者婆蹉衢多所说的经，说明探究世界与生命起源之类的问题毫无意义，并以火喻为例：一堆熄灭的火不能说它去了何方。

A discourse taught at Jetavana to the wanderer Vacchagotta on the futility of speculating about the origin of the world and of life, using the simile of a fire that, once extinguished, cannot be said to have gone anywhere.