{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn7.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn7.1","id":"suttacentral_sn7.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Now at that time the wife of a certain brahmin of the Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja clan, a brahmin lady named Dhana\u00f1j\u0101n\u012b, was devoted to the Buddha, the teaching, and the Sa\u1e45gha. Once, while she was bringing her husband his meal, she tripped and expressed this heartfelt sentiment three times: \u201cHomage to him, the blessed one, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha! Homage to him, the blessed one, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha! Homage to him, the blessed one, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha!\u201d When she said this, the brahmin said to Dhana\u00f1j\u0101n\u012b: \u201cThat\u2019d be right. For the slightest thing this lowlife woman praises that shaven ascetic. Right now, lowlife woman, I\u2019m going to refute your teacher\u2019s doctrine!\u201d \u201cBrahmin, I don\u2019t see anyone in this world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans\u2014who can refute the doctrine of the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. But anyway, you should go. When you\u2019ve gone you\u2019ll understand.\u201d Then the brahmin of the Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja clan, angry and upset, went to the Buddha and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and addressed the Buddha in verse: \u201cWhen what is slain do you sleep at ease? When what is slain is there no sorrow? What is the one thing whose killing you approve?\u201d \u201cWhen anger\u2019s slain you sleep at ease. When anger\u2019s slain there is no sorrow. Anger has a poisonous root and a sweet tip, O brahmin. The noble ones praise its killing, for when it\u2019s slain there is no sorrow.\u201d When he said this, the brahmin said to the Buddha, \u201cExcellent, worthy Gotama! 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, worthy Gotama has made the teaching clear in many ways. I go for refuge to the worthy Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha. May I receive the going forth, the ordination in the worthy Gotama\u2019s presence?\u201d And the brahmin received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha\u2019s presence. Not long after his ordination, Venerable Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. He understood: \u201cRebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.\u201d And Venerable Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja became one of the perfected.","title":"With Dhana\u00f1j\u0101n\u012b","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":478}