{"id":"sn2.8","title":"With Tāyana","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn2.8","title":"With Tāyana","units":[{"id":"sn2.8:0","sourceIds":["sn2.8:0.1","sn2.8:0.2","sn2.8:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 2.8\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nTāyanasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 2.8\nChapter One\nWith Tāyana"}},{"id":"sn2.8:1","sourceIds":["sn2.8:1.1","sn2.8:1.2","sn2.8:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho tāyano devaputto purāṇatitthakaro abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhito kho tāyano devaputto bhagavato santike imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen, late at night, the glorious godling Tāyana, formerly a religious founder, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side,\nand recited these verses in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn2.8:2","sourceIds":["sn2.8:2.1","sn2.8:2.2","sn2.8:2.3","sn2.8:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Chinda sotaṁ parakkamma,\nkāme panuda brāhmaṇa;\nNappahāya munī kāme,\nnekattamupapajjati.","en":"“Cut the stream, striving!\nCast aside sensual pleasures, brahmin.\nA sage who doesn’t give up sensual pleasures\nis not reborn in a unified state."}},{"id":"sn2.8:3","sourceIds":["sn2.8:3.1","sn2.8:3.2","sn2.8:3.3","sn2.8:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kayirā ce kayirāthenaṁ,\ndaḷhamenaṁ parakkame;\nSithilo hi paribbājo,\nbhiyyo ākirate rajaṁ.","en":"If one is to do what should be done,\none should staunchly strive.\nFor the life gone forth when laxly led\njust stirs up dust all the more."}},{"id":"sn2.8:4","sourceIds":["sn2.8:4.1","sn2.8:4.2","sn2.8:4.3","sn2.8:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akataṁ dukkaṭaṁ seyyo,\npacchā tapati dukkaṭaṁ;\nKatañca sukataṁ seyyo,\nyaṁ katvā nānutappati.","en":"A bad deed is better left undone,\nfor it will plague you later on.\nA good deed is better done,\none that does not plague you."}},{"id":"sn2.8:5","sourceIds":["sn2.8:5.1","sn2.8:5.2","sn2.8:5.3","sn2.8:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kuso yathā duggahito,\nhatthamevānukantati;\nSāmaññaṁ dupparāmaṭṭhaṁ,\nnirayāyūpakaḍḍhati.","en":"When kusa grass is wrongly grasped\nit only cuts the hand.\nSo too, the ascetic life, when wrongly taken,\ndrags you to hell."}},{"id":"sn2.8:6","sourceIds":["sn2.8:6.1","sn2.8:6.2","sn2.8:6.3","sn2.8:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ kiñci sithilaṁ kammaṁ,\nsaṅkiliṭṭhañca yaṁ vataṁ;\nSaṅkassaraṁ brahmacariyaṁ,\nna taṁ hoti mahapphalan”ti.","en":"Any lax act,\nany corrupt observance,\nor suspicious spiritual life,\nis not very fruitful.”"}},{"id":"sn2.8:7","sourceIds":["sn2.8:7.1","sn2.8:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca tāyano devaputto;\nidaṁ vatvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"That is what the godling Tāyana said.\nThen he bowed and respectfully circled the Buddha, keeping him on his right, before vanishing right there."}},{"id":"sn2.8:8","sourceIds":["sn2.8:8.1","sn2.8:8.2","sn2.8:8.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā tassā rattiyā accayena bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“imaṁ, bhikkhave, rattiṁ tāyano nāma devaputto purāṇatitthakaro abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yenāhaṁ tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā maṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhito kho, bhikkhave, tāyano devaputto mama santike imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"Then, when the night had passed, the Buddha told the mendicants all that had happened.\n“Mendicants, tonight, the glorious godling Tāyana, formerly a religious founder, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, came to me, bowed, stood to one side,\nand recited these verses in my presence.” The Buddha repeated the verses in full, adding:"}},{"id":"sn2.8:9","sourceIds":["sn2.8:9.1","sn2.8:9.2","sn2.8:9.3","sn2.8:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Chinda sotaṁ parakkamma,\nkāme panuda brāhmaṇa;\nNappahāya munī kāme,\nnekattamupapajjati."}},{"id":"sn2.8:10","sourceIds":["sn2.8:10.1","sn2.8:10.2","sn2.8:10.3","sn2.8:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kayirā ce kayirāthenaṁ,\ndaḷhamenaṁ parakkame;\nSithilo hi paribbājo,\nbhiyyo ākirate rajaṁ."}},{"id":"sn2.8:11","sourceIds":["sn2.8:11.1","sn2.8:11.2","sn2.8:11.3","sn2.8:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akataṁ dukkaṭaṁ seyyo,\npacchā tapati dukkaṭaṁ;\nKatañca sukataṁ seyyo,\nyaṁ katvā nānutappati."}},{"id":"sn2.8:12","sourceIds":["sn2.8:12.1","sn2.8:12.2","sn2.8:12.3","sn2.8:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kuso yathā duggahito,\nhatthamevānukantati;\nSāmaññaṁ dupparāmaṭṭhaṁ,\nnirayāyūpakaḍḍhati."}},{"id":"sn2.8:13","sourceIds":["sn2.8:13.1","sn2.8:13.2","sn2.8:13.3","sn2.8:13.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ kiñci sithilaṁ kammaṁ,\nsaṅkiliṭṭhañca yaṁ vataṁ;\nSaṅkassaraṁ brahmacariyaṁ,\nna taṁ hoti mahapphalan’ti."}},{"id":"sn2.8:14","sourceIds":["sn2.8:14.1","sn2.8:14.2","sn2.8:14.3","sn2.8:14.4","sn2.8:14.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca, bhikkhave, tāyano devaputto, idaṁ vatvā maṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyi.\nUggaṇhātha, bhikkhave, tāyanagāthā;\npariyāpuṇātha, bhikkhave, tāyanagāthā;\ndhāretha, bhikkhave, tāyanagāthā.\nAtthasaṁhitā, bhikkhave, tāyanagāthā ādibrahmacariyikā”ti.","en":"“That is what the godling Tāyana said. Then he bowed and respectfully circled me, keeping me on his right side, before vanishing right there.\nMendicants, learn the verses of Tāyana!\nMemorize the verses of Tāyana!\nRemember the verses of Tāyana!\nThese verses are beneficial and relate to the fundamentals of the spiritual life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.8/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."}