{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thig12.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thig12.1","id":"suttacentral_thig12.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thig12.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cI used to be a water-carrier. Even when it was cold, I would always plunge into the water, afraid of my masters\u2019 beatings, harassed by fear of abuse and anger. Brahmin, what are you afraid of, that you always plunge into the water, your limbs trembling in the freezing cold?\u201d \u201cOh, but you already know, Madam Pu\u1e47\u1e47ik\u0101, when you ask me: I am doing good deeds, to ward off the wickedness I have done. Whosoever young or old performs a wicked deed, by ablution in water they are released from their wicked deed.\u201d \u201cWho on earth told you this, one ignoramus to another: \u2018Actually, by ablution in water one is released from a wicked deed.\u2019 Would not they all go to heaven, then: all the frogs and the turtles, dragons, dolphins, and other water-dwellers too? Butchers of sheep and pigs, fishermen, animal trappers, bandits, executioners, and others of evil deeds: by ablution in water they too would be released from their wicked deeds. If these rivers had carried away your bad deeds in the past, they would also carry away your good deeds, from which you\u2019d be prevented. Brahmin, the thing that you are afraid of, when you always plunge into the water, do not do that very thing, don\u2019t let the cold harm your skin.\u201d \u201cI have been on the wrong path, and you\u2019ve guided me to the noble path. Madam, I give to you this ablution cloth.\u201d \u201cKeep the cloth for yourself, I do not want it. If you fear suffering, if you don\u2019t like suffering, then don\u2019t do bad deeds either openly or in secret. If you should do a bad deed, or you\u2019re doing one now, you won\u2019t be freed from suffering, though you fly away and flee. If you fear suffering, if you don\u2019t like suffering, go for refuge to the Buddha, the unaffected, to his teaching and to the Sa\u1e45gha. Undertake the precepts, that will be good for you.\u201d \u201cI go for refuge to the Buddha, the unaffected, to his teaching and to the Sa\u1e45gha. I undertake the precepts, that will be good for me. I used to be brahmin only by kin, today I truly am a brahmin! Master of the three knowledges, <j>accomplished in wisdom, I\u2019m a scholar, a bathed initiate.\u201d","title":"Pu\u1e47\u1e47ik\u0101","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":379}