{"id":"sn21.11","title":"With Mahākappina","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn21.11","title":"With Mahākappina","units":[{"id":"sn21.11:0","sourceIds":["sn21.11:0.1","sn21.11:0.2","sn21.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.11\n1. Bhikkhuvagga\nMahākappinasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 21.11\n1. Monks\nWith Mahākappina"}},{"id":"sn21.11:1","sourceIds":["sn21.11:1.1","sn21.11:1.2","sn21.11:1.3","sn21.11:1.4","sn21.11:1.5","sn21.11:1.6","sn21.11:1.7","sn21.11:1.8","sn21.11:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\nAtha kho āyasmā mahākappino yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.\nAddasā kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ mahākappinaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ.\nDisvāna bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, etaṁ bhikkhuṁ āgacchantaṁ odātakaṁ tanukaṁ tuṅganāsikan”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Eso kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu mahiddhiko mahānubhāvo.\nNa ca sā samāpatti sulabharūpā yā tena bhikkhunā asamāpannapubbā.\nYassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharatī”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen Venerable Mahākappina went to the Buddha.\nThe Buddha saw him coming off in the distance,\nand addressed the mendicants:\n“Mendicants, do you see that monk coming—white, thin, with a pointy nose?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“That mendicant is very mighty and powerful.\nIt’s not easy to find an attainment that he has not already attained.\nAnd he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”"}},{"id":"sn21.11:2","sourceIds":["sn21.11:2.1","sn21.11:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn21.11:3","sourceIds":["sn21.11:3.1","sn21.11:3.2","sn21.11:3.3","sn21.11:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Khattiyo seṭṭho janetasmiṁ,\nye gottapaṭisārino;\nVijjācaraṇasampanno,\nso seṭṭho devamānuse.","en":"“The aristocrat is best among people\nwho take clan as the standard.\nBut one accomplished in knowledge and conduct\nis best among gods and humans."}},{"id":"sn21.11:4","sourceIds":["sn21.11:4.1","sn21.11:4.2","sn21.11:4.3","sn21.11:4.4","sn21.11:4.5","sn21.11:4.6","sn21.11:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Divā tapati ādicco,\nrattimābhāti candimā;\nSannaddho khattiyo tapati,\njhāyī tapati brāhmaṇo;\nAtha sabbamahorattiṁ,\nbuddho tapati tejasā”ti.\nEkādasamaṁ.","en":"The sun blazes by day,\nthe moon radiates at night,\nthe aristocrat shines in armor,\nand the brahmin shines in absorption.\nBut all day and all night,\nthe Buddha blazes with glory.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.11/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."}