{"id":"sn2.5","title":"With Dāmali","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn2.5","title":"With Dāmali","units":[{"id":"sn2.5:0","sourceIds":["sn2.5:0.1","sn2.5:0.2","sn2.5:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 2.5\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nDāmalisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 2.5\nChapter One\nWith Dāmali"}},{"id":"sn2.5:1","sourceIds":["sn2.5:1.1","sn2.5:1.2","sn2.5:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho dāmali devaputto abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhito kho dāmali devaputto bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen, late at night, the glorious godling Dāmali, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side,\nand spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn2.5:2","sourceIds":["sn2.5:2.1","sn2.5:2.2","sn2.5:2.3","sn2.5:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Karaṇīyametaṁ brāhmaṇena,\nPadhānaṁ akilāsunā;\nKāmānaṁ vippahānena,\nNa tenāsīsate bhavan”ti.","en":"“This is what should be done by a brahmin:\nunrelenting striving.\nThen, with the giving up of sensual pleasures,\nthey won’t hope to be reborn.”"}},{"id":"sn2.5:3","sourceIds":["sn2.5:3.1","sn2.5:3.2","sn2.5:3.3","sn2.5:3.4","sn2.5:3.5","sn2.5:3.6","sn2.5:3.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthi kiccaṁ brāhmaṇassa,\n(dāmalīti bhagavā)\nKatakicco hi brāhmaṇo;\nYāva na gādhaṁ labhati nadīsu,\nĀyūhati sabbagattebhi jantu;\nGādhañca laddhāna thale ṭhito yo,\nNāyūhatī pāragato hi sova.","en":"“The brahmin has nothing left to do,”\nsaid the Buddha to Dāmali,\n“for they’ve completed their task.\nSo long as a personage fails to gain a footing in the river,\nthey swim with every limb.\nBut someone who has gained a footing and stands on dry land\nneed not swim, for they have reached the far shore."}},{"id":"sn2.5:4","sourceIds":["sn2.5:4.1","sn2.5:4.2","sn2.5:4.3","sn2.5:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Esūpamā dāmali brāhmaṇassa,\nKhīṇāsavassa nipakassa jhāyino;\nPappuyya jātimaraṇassa antaṁ,\nNāyūhatī pāragato hi so”ti.","en":"Dāmali, this is a simile for the brahmin,\nalert, a meditator who has ended defilements.\nSince they’ve reached the end of rebirth and death,\nthey need not swim, for they have reached the far shore.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.5/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."}