{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.4","id":"suttacentral_snp5.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cTo the imperturbable, the seer of the root,\u201d said Venerable Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka, \u201cI have come seeking with a question. On what grounds have seers and men, aristocrats and brahmins here in the world performed so many different <j>sacrifices to the gods? I ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.\u201d \u201cWhatever seers and men,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201caristocrats and brahmins here in the world have performed so many different <j>sacrifices to the gods: all performed sacrifices bound to old age, longing for this place.\u201d \u201cAs to those seers and men,\u201d said Venerable Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka, \u201cand aristocrats and brahmins here in the world who have performed so many different <j>sacrifices to the gods: being diligent in the technique of sacrifice, have they crossed over rebirth and old age, good fellow? I ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.\u201d \u201cHoping, invoking, praying, and worshiping,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cthey pray for pleasure derived from profit. Devoted to sacrifice, besotted by rebirth, they\u2019ve not crossed over rebirth and old age, <j>I declare.\u201d \u201cIf those devoted to sacrifice,\u201d said Venerable Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka, \u201chave not, by sacrificing, <j>crossed over rebirth and old age, who then in the world of gods and humans has crossed over rebirth and old age, good fellow? I ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.\u201d \u201cHaving appraised the world high and low,\u201d replied the Buddha, \u201cthere is nothing in the world that disturbs them. Peaceful, unclouded, untroubled, <j>with no need for hope\u2014 they\u2019ve crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.\u201d","title":"The Questions of Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":248}