{"id":"sn7.2","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Rude","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.2","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Rude","units":[{"id":"sn7.2:0","sourceIds":["sn7.2:0.1","sn7.2:0.2","sn7.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.2\n1. Arahantavagga\nAkkosasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.2\n1. The Perfected Ones\nWith Bhāradvāja the Rude"}},{"id":"sn7.2:1","sourceIds":["sn7.2:1.1","sn7.2:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nAssosi kho akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nThe brahmin Bhāradvāja the Rude heard a rumor that"}},{"id":"sn7.2:2","sourceIds":["sn7.2:2.1","sn7.2:2.2","sn7.2:2.3","sn7.2:2.4","sn7.2:2.5","sn7.2:2.6","sn7.2:2.7","sn7.2:2.8","sn7.2:2.9","sn7.2:2.10","sn7.2:2.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“bhāradvājagotto kira brāhmaṇo samaṇassa gotamassa santike agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajito”ti kupito anattamano yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ asabbhāhi pharusāhi vācāhi akkosati paribhāsati. Evaṁ vutte, bhagavā akkosakabhāradvājaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ etadavoca:\n“Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, brāhmaṇa,\napi nu kho te āgacchanti mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā atithiyo”ti?\n“Appekadā me, bho gotama, āgacchanti mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā atithiyo”ti.\n“Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, brāhmaṇa, api nu tesaṁ anuppadesi khādanīyaṁ vā bhojanīyaṁ vā sāyanīyaṁ vā”ti?\n“Appekadā nesāhaṁ, bho gotama, anuppademi khādanīyaṁ vā bhojanīyaṁ vā sāyanīyaṁ vā”ti.\n“Sace kho pana te, brāhmaṇa, nappaṭiggaṇhanti, kassa taṁ hotī”ti?\n“Sace te, bho gotama, nappaṭiggaṇhanti, amhākameva taṁ hotī”ti.\n“Evameva kho, brāhmaṇa, yaṁ tvaṁ amhe anakkosante akkosasi, arosente rosesi, abhaṇḍante bhaṇḍasi, taṁ te mayaṁ nappaṭiggaṇhāma.\nTavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti;\ntavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti.","en":"a brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan had gone forth from the lay life to homelessness in the presence of the ascetic Gotama. Angry and displeased he went to the Buddha and abused and insulted him with rude, harsh words. When he had spoken, the Buddha said to him:\n“What do you think, brahmin?\nDo friends and colleagues, relatives and kin, and guests still come to visit you?”\n“Sometimes they do, worthy Gotama.”\n“Do you then serve them with fresh and cooked foods and savories?”\n“Sometimes I do.”\n“But if they don’t accept it, brahmin, who does it belong to?”\n“In that case it still belongs to me.”\n“In the same way, brahmin, when you abuse, harass, and attack us who do not abuse, harass, and attack, we don’t accept it.\nIt still belongs to you, brahmin,\nit still belongs to you!"}},{"id":"sn7.2:3","sourceIds":["sn7.2:3.1","sn7.2:3.2","sn7.2:3.3","sn7.2:3.4","sn7.2:3.5","sn7.2:3.6","sn7.2:3.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo kho, brāhmaṇa, akkosantaṁ paccakkosati, rosentaṁ paṭiroseti, bhaṇḍantaṁ paṭibhaṇḍati, ayaṁ vuccati, brāhmaṇa, sambhuñjati vītiharatīti.\nTe mayaṁ tayā neva sambhuñjāma na vītiharāma.\nTavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hoti;\ntavevetaṁ, brāhmaṇa, hotī”ti.\n“Bhavantaṁ kho gotamaṁ sarājikā parisā evaṁ jānāti:\n‘arahaṁ samaṇo gotamo’ti.\nAtha ca pana bhavaṁ gotamo kujjhatī”ti.","en":"Someone who, when abused, harassed, and attacked, abuses, harasses, and attacks in return is said to eat the food and have a reaction to it.\nBut we neither eat your food nor do we have a reaction to it.\nIt still belongs to you, brahmin,\nit still belongs to you!”\n“The king and his retinue believe of the worthy Gotama,\n‘the ascetic Gotama is a perfected one’.\nAnd yet he still gets angry.”"}},{"id":"sn7.2:4","sourceIds":["sn7.2:4.1","sn7.2:4.2","sn7.2:4.3","sn7.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Akkodhassa kuto kodho,\ndantassa samajīvino;\nSammadaññā vimuttassa,\nupasantassa tādino.","en":"“Whence anger for one free of anger,\ntamed, living justly,\nfreed by right knowledge,\npeaceful and unaffected?"}},{"id":"sn7.2:5","sourceIds":["sn7.2:5.1","sn7.2:5.2","sn7.2:5.3","sn7.2:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasseva tena pāpiyo,\nyo kuddhaṁ paṭikujjhati;\nKuddhaṁ appaṭikujjhanto,\nsaṅgāmaṁ jeti dujjayaṁ.","en":"When you get angry at an angry person\nyou just make things worse for yourself.\nWhen you don’t get angry at an angry person\nyou win a battle hard to win."}},{"id":"sn7.2:6","sourceIds":["sn7.2:6.1","sn7.2:6.2","sn7.2:6.3","sn7.2:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ubhinnamatthaṁ carati,\nattano ca parassa ca;\nParaṁ saṅkupitaṁ ñatvā,\nyo sato upasammati.","en":"When you know that the other is angry,\nyou act for the good of both\nyourself and the other\nif you’re mindful and stay calm."}},{"id":"sn7.2:7","sourceIds":["sn7.2:7.1","sn7.2:7.2","sn7.2:7.3","sn7.2:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ubhinnaṁ tikicchantānaṁ,\nattano ca parassa ca;\nJanā maññanti bāloti,\nye dhammassa akovidā”ti.","en":"People inexpert in the teaching\nconsider one who heals both\noneself and the other\nto be a fool.”"}},{"id":"sn7.2:8","sourceIds":["sn7.2:8.1","sn7.2:8.2","sn7.2:8.3","sn7.2:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nesāhaṁ bhavantaṁ gotamaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi dhammañca bhikkhusaṅghañca.\nLabheyyāhaṁ, bhante, bhoto gotamassa santike pabbajjaṁ, labheyyaṁ upasampadan”ti.","en":"When he had spoken, Bhāradvāja the Rude said to the Buddha,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama! …\nI go for refuge to the worthy Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha.\nSir, may I receive the going forth, the ordination in the worthy Gotama’s presence?”"}},{"id":"sn7.2:9","sourceIds":["sn7.2:9.1","sn7.2:9.2","sn7.2:9.3","sn7.2:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Alattha kho akkosakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavato santike pabbajjaṁ, alattha upasampadaṁ.\nAcirūpasampanno kho panāyasmā akkosakabhāradvājo eko vūpakaṭṭho appamatto ātāpī pahitatto viharanto nacirasseva—yassatthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ—brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāsi.\n“Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ nāparaṁ itthattāyā”ti abbhaññāsi.\nAññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṁ ahosīti.","en":"And the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Rude received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence.\nNot long after his ordination, Venerable Bhāradvāja the Rude, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.\nHe understood: “Rebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.”\nAnd Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the perfected."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.2/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."}