Aṇguttara Nikāya
VIII. Aṭṭhaka Nipāta
VI. Gotamī Vagga aka Sa-ādhāna-Vagga
Sutta 53
Sankhitta Gotamī-y-Ovāda Suttaṃ
To Gotamī
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Proofed against and modified in accordance with the revised edition at dhammatalks.org
Provenance, terms and conditons
[1][pts] I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying at Vesāli, in the Peaked Roof Hall in the Great Forest.
Then Mahā-Pajāpati Gotamī went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, stood to one side.
As she was standing there she said to him:
"It would be good, lord, if the Blessed One would teach me the Dhamma in brief such that,
having heard the Dhamma from the Blessed One,
I might dwell alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, and resolute."
"Gotamī, the qualities of which you may know,
'These qualities lead to passion,
not to dispassion;
to being fettered,
not to being unfettered;
to accumulating,
not to shedding;
to self-aggrandizement,
not to modesty;
to discontent,
not to contentment;
to entanglement,
not to reclusiveness;
to laziness,
not to aroused persistence;
to being burdensome,
not to being unburdensome':
You may categorically hold,
'This is not the Dhamma,
this is not the Vinaya,
this is not the Teacher's instruction.'
"As for the qualities of which you may know,
'These qualities lead to dispassion,
not to passion;
to being unfettered,
not to being fettered;
to shedding,
not to accumulating;
to modesty,
not to self-aggrandizement;
to contentment,
not to discontent;
to reclusiveness,
not to entanglement;
to aroused persistence,
not to laziness;
to being unburdensome,
not to being burdensome':
You may categorically hold,
'This is the Dhamma,
this is the Vinaya,
this is the Teacher's instruction.'"
That is what the Blessed One said.|| ||
Gratified, Mahā-Pajāpati Gotamī delighted at his words.
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