{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn8.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn8.3","id":"suttacentral_sn8.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Va\u1e45g\u012bsa was staying near \u0100\u1e37av\u012b, at \u0100\u1e37av\u012b\u2019s premier shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa. Now at that time Venerable Va\u1e45g\u012bsa looked down upon other good-hearted mendicants because of his own eloquence. Then he thought, \u201cIt\u2019s my loss, my misfortune, that I look down on other good-hearted mendicants because of my own eloquence.\u201d Then, on the occasion of arousing remorse in himself, he recited these verses: \u201cGive up conceit, Gotama! Completely abandon the different kinds of conceit! Besotted with the different kinds of conceit, you\u2019ve had regrets for a long time. Smeared by smears and slain by conceit, people fall into hell. When people slain by conceit are reborn in hell, they grieve for a long time. But a mendicant who practices rightly, a path-victor, never grieves. They enjoy happiness and a good reputation, and they rightly call him a \u2018Seer of Truth\u2019. So being not hard-hearted, but energetic, with hindrances given up, pure; and having completely given up conceit, the one who makes an end with knowledge is assuaged.\u201d","title":"Good-Hearted","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":174}