Validity and importance of having psychic powers in Buddhism - Susīma Sutta - Bhante Pesala
Channel: Buddhist Insights @ Empty Cloud
Date: 2023-08-11

In this sutta records a situation when the order has grown in popularity and wealth. The wanderer Susīma, on the instigation of his colleagues, joins the order as a “thief of Dharma” (dhamma thena),intending to learn the Buddha’s teaching to gain material advantage for his own company of wanderers, but finally he had gained the liberation by realizing the Dhamma.

Sutta link ;- https://suttacentral.net/sn12.70