一部於祇陀林對遊行者婆蹉衢多所說的經，說明探究世界與生命起源之類的問題毫無意義，並以火喻為例：一堆熄滅的火不能說它去了何方。

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.