{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn7.18/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn7.18","id":"suttacentral_sn7.18","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.18/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove. Then several students, pupils of one of the Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja brahmins, approached a forest grove while collecting firewood. They saw the Buddha sitting down cross-legged at the root of a certain sal tree, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present. Seeing this, they went up to Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja and said to him, \u201cPlease sir, you should know this. In such-and-such forest grove the ascetic Gotama is sitting down cross-legged, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present.\u201d Then Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja together with those young students went to that forest grove where he saw the Buddha sitting down cross-legged, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present. He went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse: \u201cDeep in the jungle so full of terrors, you\u2019ve plunged into the empty, desolate wilderness. Still, steady, and graceful: how beautifully you meditate, mendicant! Where there is no song or music, a lonely sage resorts to the wilderness. This strikes me as an amazing thing, that you dwell so joyfully alone in the jungle. I suppose you wish to be reborn in the company of the supreme world-sovereign <j>of the Third Heaven. Is that why you resort to the desolate wilderness, to practice fervor for attaining divinity?\u201d \u201cAny wishes and hopes that are always attached to the many and various realms\u2014 the prayers sprung from the root of unknowing\u2014 I\u2019ve eliminated them all down to the root. So I\u2019m wishless, unattached, uninvolved; amongst all things, my vision is clear. I\u2019ve attained the state of grace, <j>the supreme awakening; I meditate alone, brahmin, and self-assured.\u201d When he had spoken, Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja said to the Buddha, \u201cExcellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent! \u2026 From this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.\u201d","title":"Collecting Firewood","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":318}