{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn2.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn2.5","id":"suttacentral_sn2.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then, late at night, the glorious godling D\u0101mali, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and spoke this verse in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cThis is what should be done by a brahmin: unrelenting striving. Then, with the giving up of sensual pleasures, they won\u2019t hope to be reborn.\u201d \u201cThe brahmin has nothing left to do,\u201d said the Buddha to D\u0101mali, \u201cfor they\u2019ve completed their task. So long as a personage fails to gain a footing in the river, they swim with every limb. But someone who has gained a footing <j>and stands on dry land need not swim, <j>for they have reached the far shore. D\u0101mali, this is a simile for the brahmin, alert, a meditator who has ended defilements. Since they\u2019ve reached the end of rebirth and death, they need not swim, <j>for they have reached the far shore.\u201d","title":"With D\u0101mali","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":151}