{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn21.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn21.4","id":"suttacentral_sn21.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Now at that time a certain junior monk, after his meal, on his return from almsround, entered his dwelling, where he adhered to passivity and silence. And he didn\u2019t help the mendicants out when it was time to sew robes. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what had happened. So the Buddha addressed one of the monks, \u201cPlease, monk, in my name tell that monk that the Teacher summons him.\u201d \u201cYes, sir,\u201d that monk replied. He went to that monk and said to him, \u201cReverend, the Teacher summons you.\u201d \u201cYes, reverend,\u201d that monk replied. He went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cIs it really true, monk, that after your meal, on your return from almsround, you entered your dwelling, where you adhered to passivity and silence, and you didn\u2019t help the mendicants out when it was time to sew robes?\u201d \u201cSir, I am doing my own work.\u201d Then the Buddha, knowing that monk\u2019s train of thought, addressed the mendicants: \u201cMendicants, don\u2019t complain about this monk. This monk gets the four absorptions\u2014blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind\u2014when he wants, without trouble or difficulty. He has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life, and lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cNot by being slack, or with little strength may this be realized\u2014extinguishment, the release from all suffering. This young monk, this best of men, bears his final body, having vanquished M\u0101ra with his legions.\u201d","title":"A Junior Mendicant","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":296}