{"id":"an4.22","title":"At Uruvelā (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.22","title":"At Uruvelā (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an4.22:0","sourceIds":["an4.22:0.1","an4.22:0.2","an4.22:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.22\n3. Uruvelavagga\nDutiyauruvelasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.22\n3. At Uruvelā\nAt Uruvelā (2nd)"}},{"id":"an4.22:1","sourceIds":["an4.22:1.1","an4.22:1.2","an4.22:1.3","an4.22:1.4","an4.22:1.5","an4.22:1.6","an4.22:1.7","an4.22:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekamidāhaṁ, bhikkhave, samayaṁ uruvelāyaṁ viharāmi najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhe paṭhamābhisambuddho.\nAtha kho, bhikkhave, sambahulā brāhmaṇā jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā yenāhaṁ tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā mayā saddhiṁ sammodiṁsu.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu. Ekamantaṁ nisinnā kho, bhikkhave, te brāhmaṇā maṁ etadavocuṁ:\n‘sutaṁ netaṁ, bho gotama:\n“na samaṇo gotamo brāhmaṇe jiṇṇe vuddhe mahallake addhagate vayoanuppatte abhivādeti vā paccuṭṭheti vā āsanena vā nimantetī”ti.\nTayidaṁ, bho gotama, tatheva.\nNa hi bhavaṁ gotamo brāhmaṇe jiṇṇe vuddhe mahallake addhagate vayoanuppatte abhivādeti vā paccuṭṭheti vā āsanena vā nimanteti.\nTayidaṁ, bho gotama, na sampannamevā’ti.","en":"“Mendicants, this one time, when I was first awakened, I was staying in Uruvelā at the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.\nThen several old brahmins—elderly and senior, who were advanced in years and had reached the final stage of life—came up to me, and exchanged greetings with me.\nWhen the greetings and polite conversation were over, they sat down to one side, and said to me:\n‘Worthy Gotama, we have heard this:\n“The ascetic Gotama does not bow to old brahmins, elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.”\nAnd this is indeed the case,\nfor the worthy Gotama does not bow to old brahmins, elderly and senior, who are advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; nor does he rise in their presence or offer them a seat.\nThis is not appropriate, worthy Gotama.’"}},{"id":"an4.22:2","sourceIds":["an4.22:2.1","an4.22:2.2","an4.22:2.3","an4.22:2.4","an4.22:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassa mayhaṁ, bhikkhave, etadahosi:\n‘nayime āyasmanto jānanti theraṁ vā therakaraṇe vā dhamme’ti.\nVuddho cepi, bhikkhave, hoti āsītiko vā nāvutiko vā vassasatiko vā jātiyā.\nSo ca hoti akālavādī abhūtavādī anatthavādī adhammavādī avinayavādī, anidhānavatiṁ vācaṁ bhāsitā akālena anapadesaṁ apariyantavatiṁ anatthasaṁhitaṁ.\nAtha kho so ‘bālo thero’tveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.","en":"Then it occurred to me,\n‘These venerables don’t know what a senior is, or what qualities make you a senior.’\nMendicants, suppose you’re eighty, ninety, or a hundred years old.\nBut your speech is untimely, false, meaningless, and against the teaching or training. You say things at the wrong time which are worthless, unreasonable, rambling, and unbeneficial.\nThen you’ll be reckoned a ‘childish senior’."}},{"id":"an4.22:3","sourceIds":["an4.22:3.1","an4.22:3.2","an4.22:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Daharo cepi, bhikkhave, hoti yuvā susukāḷakeso bhadrena yobbanena samannāgato paṭhamena vayasā.\nSo ca hoti kālavādī bhūtavādī atthavādī dhammavādī vinayavādī nidhānavatiṁ vācaṁ bhāsitā kālena sāpadesaṁ pariyantavatiṁ atthasaṁhitaṁ.\nAtha kho so ‘paṇḍito thero’tveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.","en":"Now suppose you’re a youth, young, with pristine black hair, blessed with youth, in the prime of life.\nBut your speech is timely, true, meaningful, and in line with the teaching and training. You say things at the right time which are valuable, reasonable, succinct, and beneficial.\nThen you’ll be reckoned an ‘astute senior’."}},{"id":"an4.22:4","sourceIds":["an4.22:4.1","an4.22:4.2","an4.22:4.3","an4.22:4.4","an4.22:4.5","an4.22:4.6","an4.22:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cattārome, bhikkhave, therakaraṇā dhammā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti, pātimokkhasaṁvarasaṁvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī, samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu\nBahussuto hoti sutadharo sutasannicayo, ye te dhammā ādikalyāṇā majjhekalyāṇā pariyosānakalyāṇā sātthaṁ sabyañjanaṁ kevalaparipuṇṇaṁ parisuddhaṁ brahmacariyaṁ abhivadanti, tathārūpāssa dhammā bahussutā honti dhātā vacasā paricitā manasānupekkhitā, diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhā.\nCatunnaṁ jhānānaṁ ābhicetasikānaṁ diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārānaṁ nikāmalābhī hoti akicchalābhī akasiralābhī.\nĀsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro therakaraṇā dhammāti.","en":"There are these four qualities that make a senior.\nWhat four?\nA mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThey’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.\nThey get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.\nThey realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\nThese are the four qualities that make a senior."}},{"id":"an4.22:5","sourceIds":["an4.22:5.1","an4.22:5.2","an4.22:5.3","an4.22:5.4","an4.22:5.5","an4.22:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo uddhatena cittena,\nsamphañca bahu bhāsati;\nAsamāhitasaṅkappo,\nasaddhammarato mago;\nĀrā so thāvareyyamhā,\npāpadiṭṭhi anādaro.","en":"The creature with a restless mind\nspeaks a lot of nonsense.\nTheir thoughts are unsettled,\nand they don’t like the true teaching.\nThey’re far from seniority, with their bad views\nand their lack of regard for others."}},{"id":"an4.22:6","sourceIds":["an4.22:6.1","an4.22:6.2","an4.22:6.3","an4.22:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca sīlena sampanno,\nsutavā paṭibhānavā;\nSaññato dhīro dhammesu,\npaññāyatthaṁ vipassati.","en":"But one accomplished in ethics,\nlearned and eloquent, that attentive one\nis restrained when experiencing phenomena,\ndiscerning the meaning with wisdom."}},{"id":"an4.22:7","sourceIds":["an4.22:7.1","an4.22:7.2","an4.22:7.3","an4.22:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pāragū sabbadhammānaṁ,\nakhilo paṭibhānavā;\nPahīnajātimaraṇo,\nbrahmacariyassa kevalī.","en":"Gone beyond all things,\nkind, eloquent,\nthey’ve given up birth and death,\nand have completed the spiritual journey."}},{"id":"an4.22:8","sourceIds":["an4.22:8.1","an4.22:8.2","an4.22:8.3","an4.22:8.4","an4.22:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tamahaṁ vadāmi theroti,\nyassa no santi āsavā;\nĀsavānaṁ khayā bhikkhu,\nso theroti pavuccatī”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"That’s who I call a senior,\nwho has no defilements.\nWith the ending of defilements, a mendicant\nis declared a ‘senior’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.22/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}