{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp24/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp24","id":"suttacentral_cp24","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp24/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was in the capital citadel of K\u0101si, a sister and seven brothers were born in a learned family. I was the first-born of them all, furnishing with pure conscience. Seeing rebirth as fearful, I longed for renunciation. Sent for by my mother and father, my friends with one mind invited me to enjoy sensual pleasures, saying: \u2018Maintain the family lineage.\u2019 The words they said about the ways a householder can find happiness, were hard for me to hear, like a heated ploughshare. When I turned down their proposal, they asked me what I wished for: \u2018My dear, what is it that you wish, since you do not long for sensual pleasures?\u2019 I spoke to my beneficiaries, wanting what is best. \u2018I wish not for the householder\u2019s state, I long for renunciation.\u2019 Hearing my words, they told my mother and father. My parents said this: \u2018Sirs, let all of us go forth!\u2019 So both my mother and father, sister and seven brothers, discarding countless riches, entered the great forest.\u201d","title":"The Conduct of the Lotus-eaters","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":172}