{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_ud1.8/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_ud1.8","id":"suttacentral_ud1.8","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/ud1.8/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji had arrived at S\u0101vatth\u012b to see the Buddha. His former wife heard that he had arrived, and went to the Jetavana, taking their boy. Now at that time Venerable Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji was sitting at the root of a tree for the day\u2019s meditation. Then his former wife went up to him and said, \u201cAscetic, please raise this little boy.\u201d When she said this, Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji kept silent. For a second time she said, \u201cAscetic, please raise this little boy.\u201d For a second time, Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji kept silent. For a third time she said, \u201cAscetic, please raise this little boy.\u201d For a third time, Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji kept silent. Then she put down the boy in front of Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji, saying, \u201cThis is your child, ascetic. Please raise him.\u201d But Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji neither looked at the boy nor spoke to him. Then his former wife went a little distance away. Looking back, she saw Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji ignoring the boy, and thought, \u201cThis ascetic doesn\u2019t even want his child.\u201d She returned to pick up the boy, then left. With clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, the Buddha saw how Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji\u2019s former wife went back for the child. Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment: \u201cWhen she came he was not glad, when she left he did not grieve. Victorious in battle, freed from chains, that\u2019s who I declare a brahmin.\u201d","title":"With Sa\u1e45g\u0101maji","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":250}