{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.30/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.30","id":"suttacentral_an5.30","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.30/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was wandering in the land of the Kosalans together with a large Sa\u1e45gha of mendicants when he arrived at a village of the Kosalan brahmins named Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. He stayed in a forest near Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. The brahmins and householders of Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala heard: \u201cIt seems the ascetic Gotama\u2014a Sakyan, gone forth from a Sakyan family\u2014has arrived at Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. He is staying in a forest near Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. He has this good reputation: \u2018That Blessed One is perfected, a fully awakened Buddha, accomplished in knowledge and conduct, holy, knower of the world, supreme guide for those fit for training, teacher of gods and humans, awakened, blessed.\u2019 He has realized with his own insight this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans\u2014and he makes it known to others. He teaches Dhamma that\u2019s good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased. And he reveals a spiritual practice that\u2019s entirely full and pure. It\u2019s good to see such perfected ones.\u201d Then, when the night had passed, they took abundant fresh and cooked foods and went to the forest near Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala, where they stood outside the gates making a colossal racket. Now, at that time Venerable N\u0101gita was the Buddha\u2019s attendant. Then the Buddha said to N\u0101gita, \u201cN\u0101gita, who\u2019s making that colossal racket? You\u2019d think it was fishermen hauling in a catch!\u201d \u201cSir, it\u2019s these brahmins and householders of Icch\u0101na\u1e45gala. They\u2019ve brought many fresh and cooked foods, and they\u2019re standing outside the gates wanting to offer it specially to the Buddha and the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha.\u201d \u201cN\u0101gita, may I never become famous. May fame not come to me. There are those who can\u2019t get the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of awakening when they want, without trouble or difficulty like I can. Let them enjoy the filthy, lazy pleasure of possessions, honor, and popularity.\u201d \u201cSir, may the Blessed One please relent now! May the Holy One relent! Now is the time for the Buddha to relent. Wherever the Buddha now goes, the brahmins and householders, and people of town and country will incline the same way. It\u2019s like when the heavens rain heavily and the water flows downhill. In the same way, wherever the Buddha now goes, the brahmins and householders, and people of town and country will incline the same way. Why is that? Because of the Buddha\u2019s ethics and wisdom.\u201d \u201cN\u0101gita, may I never become famous. May fame not come to me. There are those who can\u2019t get the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of awakening when they want, without trouble or difficulty like I can. Let them enjoy the filthy, lazy pleasure of possessions, honor, and popularity. What you eat, drink, chew, and taste ends up as excrement and urine. This is its outcome. When loved ones decay and perish, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress arise. This is its outcome. When you pursue meditation on the feature of ugliness, revulsion at the feature of beauty becomes stabilized. This is its outcome. When you meditate observing impermanence in the six fields of contact, revulsion at contact becomes stabilized. This is its outcome. When you meditate observing rise and fall in the five grasping aggregates, revulsion at grasping becomes stabilized. This is its outcome.\u201d","title":"With N\u0101gita","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":569}