{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn2.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn2.8","id":"suttacentral_sn2.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Then, late at night, the glorious godling T\u0101yana, formerly a religious founder, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and recited these verses in the Buddha\u2019s presence: \u201cCut the stream, striving! Cast aside sensual pleasures, brahmin. A sage who doesn\u2019t give up sensual pleasures is not reborn in a unified state. If one is to do what should be done, one should staunchly strive. For the life gone forth when laxly led just stirs up dust all the more. A bad deed is better left undone, for it will plague you later on. A good deed is better done, one that does not plague you. When kusa grass is wrongly grasped it only cuts the hand. So too, the ascetic life, when wrongly taken, drags you to hell. Any lax act, any corrupt observance, or suspicious spiritual life, is not very fruitful.\u201d That is what the godling T\u0101yana said. Then he bowed and respectfully circled the Buddha, keeping him on his right, before vanishing right there. Then, when the night had passed, the Buddha told the mendicants all that had happened. \u201cMendicants, tonight, the glorious godling T\u0101yana, formerly a religious founder, lighting up the entire Jeta\u2019s Grove, came to me, bowed, stood to one side, and recited these verses in my presence.\u201d The Buddha repeated the verses in full, adding: \u201cThat is what the godling T\u0101yana said. Then he bowed and respectfully circled me, keeping me on his right side, before vanishing right there. Mendicants, learn the verses of T\u0101yana! Memorize the verses of T\u0101yana! Remember the verses of T\u0101yana! These verses are beneficial and relate to the fundamentals of the spiritual life.\u201d","title":"With T\u0101yana","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":284}