Saṃyutta Nikāya
I. Sagatha Vagga
7. Brahmana Saṃyutta
Sutta 12
Udaya Suttaṃ
Udaya
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Sourced from the edition at dhammatalks.org
Provenance, terms and conditons
[12.1][pts][olen] Near Sāvatthī.
Then early in the morning, the Blessed One, having adjusted his under robe and carrying his bowl and outer robe, went to the home of the brahman Udaya.
The brahman Udaya filled the Blessed One's bowl with rice.
Then a second time, [on the next day,] the Blessed One, having adjusted his under robe and carrying his bowl and outer robe, went to the home of the brahman Udaya.
And a second time, the brahman Udaya filled the Blessed One's bowl with rice.
Then a third time, [on the following day,] the Blessed One, having adjusted his under robe and carrying his bowl and outer robe, went to the home of the brahman Udaya.
And a third time, the brahman Udaya, having filled the Blessed One's bowl with rice, said to him, "This pesky Gotama contemplative keeps coming again and again."
The Buddha:
"Again and again they sow the seed.
Again and again the deva-kings rain.
Again and again farmers plow the fields.
Again and again grain comes to the kingdom.
Again and again beggars wander.
Again and again lords of giving give.
Again and again having given, the lords of giving
again and again go to a heavenly place.[1]
Again and again dairy farmers draw milk.
Again and again the calf goes to its mother.
Again and again one wearies and trembles.
Again and again the dullard goes to the womb.
Again and again you take birth and die.
Again and again they carry you to the charnel ground.
But on gaining the path
to no again-becoming,
you, deep in discernment,
don't take birth
again and again."
When this was said, the brahman Udaya said to the Blessed One, "Magnificent, Master Gotama!
Magnificent!
Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has Master Gotama — through many lines of reasoning — made the Dhamma clear.
I go to Master Gotama for refuge, to the Dhamma, and to the Saṇgha of monks.
May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forward, for life."
[1] These first two verses are also found in Thag 10:1.
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