{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn35.133/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn35.133","id":"suttacentral_sn35.133","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.133/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Ud\u0101y\u012b was staying near K\u0101ma\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101 in the brahmin Todeyya\u2019s mango grove. Then a boy who was a pupil of the brahmin lady of the Verahacc\u0101ni clan went up to Ud\u0101y\u012b and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side. Ud\u0101y\u012b educated, encouraged, fired up, and inspired that young student with a Dhamma talk. Then that young student went to the brahmin lady of the Verahacc\u0101ni clan and said to her, \u201cPlease, madam, you should know this. The ascetic Ud\u0101y\u012b teaches Dhamma that\u2019s good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased. And he reveals a spiritual practice that\u2019s entirely full and pure.\u201d \u201cThen, young student, invite him in my name for tomorrow\u2019s meal.\u201d \u201cYes, madam,\u201d he replied. He went to Ud\u0101y\u012b and said, \u201cWould Worthy Ud\u0101y\u012b please accept an offering of tomorrow\u2019s meal from my tutor\u2019s wife, the brahmin lady of the Verahacc\u0101ni clan?\u201d Ud\u0101y\u012b consented with silence. Then when the night had passed, Ud\u0101y\u012b robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the brahmin lady\u2019s home, and sat down on the seat spread out. Then the brahmin lady served and satisfied Ud\u0101y\u012b with her own hands with delicious fresh and cooked foods. When Ud\u0101y\u012b had eaten and washed his hand and bowl, she put on a pair of slippers, sat on a high seat, covered her head, and said to him, \u201cAscetic, preach the Dhamma.\u201d \u201cThere will be an occasion for that, sister,\u201d he replied, then rose from his seat and left. For a second time that young student went to Venerable Ud\u0101y\u012b \u2026 And for a second time that young student went to the brahmin lady of the Verahacc\u0101ni clan \u2026 She said to him, \u201cYou keep praising the ascetic Ud\u0101y\u012b like this. But when I asked him to preach the Dhamma he just said that there would be an occasion for that, and then he got up and left.\u201d \u201cMadam, that\u2019s because you put on a pair of slippers, sat on a high seat, and covered your head before inviting him to teach. For the good sirs respect the teaching.\u201d \u201cThen, young student, invite him in my name for tomorrow\u2019s meal.\u201d \u201cYes, madam,\u201d he replied. \u2026 Then the brahmin lady served and satisfied Ud\u0101y\u012b with her own hands with delicious fresh and cooked foods. When Ud\u0101y\u012b had eaten and washed his hand and bowl, she took off her slippers, sat on a low seat, uncovered her head, and said to him, \u201cSir, when what exists do the perfected ones assert that there is pleasure and pain? When what doesn\u2019t exist do the perfected ones not declare that there is pleasure and pain?\u201d \u201cSister, when there\u2019s an eye, the perfected ones assert that there is pleasure and pain. When there\u2019s no eye, the perfected ones don\u2019t declare that there is pleasure and pain. When there\u2019s an ear \u2026 nose \u2026 tongue \u2026 body \u2026 mind, the perfected ones assert that there is pleasure and pain. When there\u2019s no mind, the perfected ones don\u2019t declare that there is pleasure and pain.\u201d When he said this, the brahmin lady said to Ud\u0101y\u012b, \u201cExcellent, sir! Excellent! As if he were righting the overturned, or revealing the hidden, or pointing out the path to the lost, or lighting a lamp in the dark so people with clear eyes can see what\u2019s there, Master Ud\u0101y\u012b has made the teaching clear in many ways. I go for refuge to the Buddha, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha. From this day forth, may Master Ud\u0101y\u012b remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.\u201d","title":"Verahacc\u0101ni","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":621}