{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn8.7/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn8.7","id":"suttacentral_sn8.7","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.7/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in the stilt longhouse of Mig\u0101ra\u2019s mother in the Eastern Monastery, together with a large Sa\u1e45gha of around five hundred monks, all of whom were perfected ones. Now, at that time it was the sabbath\u2014the full moon on the fifteenth day\u2014and the Buddha was sitting in the open surrounded by the Sa\u1e45gha of monks for the invitation to admonish. Then the Buddha looked around the Sa\u1e45gha of monks, who were silent. He addressed them: \u201cCome now, monks, I invite you all: Is there anything I\u2019ve done by way of body or speech that you would criticize?\u201d When he had spoken, Venerable S\u0101riputta rose from his seat, arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his cupped palms toward the Buddha, and said: \u201cThere is nothing, sir, that you\u2019ve done by way of body or speech that we would criticize. For the Blessed One gave rise to the unarisen path, gave birth to the unborn path, and explained the unexplained path. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the expert on the path. And now the disciples live following the path; they acquire it later. And sir, I invite the Blessed One. Is there anything I\u2019ve done by way of body or speech that you would criticize?\u201d \u201cThere is nothing, S\u0101riputta, that you\u2019ve done by way of body or speech that I would criticize. S\u0101riputta, you are astute. You have great wisdom, widespread wisdom, laughing wisdom, swift wisdom, sharp wisdom, penetrating wisdom. A wheel-turning monarch\u2019s oldest son rightly keeps wielding the power set in motion by his father. In the same way, S\u0101riputta rightly keeps rolling the supreme Wheel of Dhamma that was rolled forth by me.\u201d \u201cSince it seems I have done nothing worthy of the Blessed One\u2019s criticism, is there anything these five hundred monks have done by way of body or speech that you would criticize?\u201d \u201cThere is nothing, S\u0101riputta, that these five hundred monks have done by way of body or speech that I would criticize. For of these five hundred monks, sixty have the three knowledges, sixty have the six direct knowledges, sixty are freed both ways, and the rest are freed by wisdom.\u201d Then Venerable Va\u1e45g\u012bsa rose from his seat, arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his cupped palms toward the Buddha, and said, \u201cI feel inspired to speak, Blessed One! I feel inspired to speak, Holy One!\u201d \u201cThen speak as you feel inspired,\u201d said the Buddha. Then Va\u1e45g\u012bsa extolled the Buddha in his presence with fitting verses: \u201cToday, on the fifteenth day sabbath, five hundred monks have gathered together <j>to purify their precepts. These untroubled sages <j>have cut off their fetters and bonds, they will not be reborn again. Just as a wheel-turning monarch surrounded by ministers travels all around this land girt by sea. So disciples with the three knowledges, conquerors of death, revere the winner of the battle, the unsurpassed caravan leader. All are sons of the Blessed One\u2014 there is no rubbish here. I bow to the Kinsman of the Sun, destroyer of the dart of craving.\u201d","title":"The Invitation to Admonish","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":520}