{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an8.86/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an8.86","id":"suttacentral_an8.86","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.86/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"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 \u2026 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 abundant 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. Even some of the deities 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. When you all come together to enjoy each other\u2019s company, I think: \u2018These venerables mustn\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. That must be because they come together to enjoy each other\u2019s company.\u2019 Take mendicants I see poking each other with their fingers, giggling and playing together. I think to myself: \u2018These venerables mustn\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. That must be because they\u2019re poking each other with their fingers, giggling and playing together.\u2019 Take mendicants I see eat as much as they like until their bellies are full, then indulge in the pleasures of sleeping, lying down, and drowsing. I think to myself: \u2018These venerables mustn\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. That must be because they eat as much as they like until their bellies are full, then indulge in the pleasures of sleeping, lying down, and drowsing.\u2019 Take a mendicant living within a village who I see sitting immersed in sam\u0101dhi. I think to myself: \u2018Now a monastery worker, a novice, or a fellow practitioner will make this venerable fall from immersion.\u2019 So I\u2019m not pleased that that mendicant is living within a village. Take a mendicant in the wilderness who I see sitting nodding in meditation. I think to myself: \u2018Now this venerable, having dispelled that sleepiness and weariness, will focus just on the unified perception of wilderness.\u2019 So I\u2019m pleased that that mendicant is living in the wilderness. Take a mendicant in the wilderness who I see sitting without being immersed in sam\u0101dhi. I think to myself: \u2018Now if this venerable\u2019s mind is not immersed in sam\u0101dhi they will immerse it; or if it is immersed in sam\u0101dhi, they will preserve it.\u2019 So I\u2019m pleased that that mendicant is living in the wilderness. Take a mendicant in the wilderness who I see sitting immersed in sam\u0101dhi. I think to myself: \u2018Now this venerable will free the unfreed mind or preserve the freed mind.\u2019 So I\u2019m pleased that that mendicant is living in the wilderness. Take a mendicant who I see living within a village receiving robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. Enjoying possessions, honor, and popularity they neglect retreat, and they neglect remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. They come down to villages, towns, and capital cities and make their home there. So I\u2019m not pleased that that mendicant is living within a village. Take a mendicant who I see in the wilderness receiving robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. Fending off possessions, honor, and popularity they don\u2019t neglect retreat, and they don\u2019t neglect remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest. So I\u2019m pleased that that mendicant is living in the wilderness. N\u0101gita, when I\u2019m walking along a road and I don\u2019t see anyone ahead or behind I feel relaxed, even if I need to urinate or defecate.\u201d","title":"With N\u0101gita","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":980}