{"id":"sn7.4","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Bitter","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.4","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Bitter","units":[{"id":"sn7.4:0","sourceIds":["sn7.4:0.1","sn7.4:0.2","sn7.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.4\n1. Arahantavagga\nBilaṅgikasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.4\n1. The Perfected Ones\nWith Bhāradvāja the Bitter"}},{"id":"sn7.4:1","sourceIds":["sn7.4:1.1","sn7.4:1.2","sn7.4:1.3","sn7.4:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nAssosi kho bilaṅgikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo:\n“bhāradvājagotto kira brāhmaṇo samaṇassa gotamassa santike agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajito”ti kupito anattamano yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā tuṇhībhūto ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nAtha kho bhagavā bilaṅgikassa bhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya bilaṅgikaṁ bhāradvājaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nThe brahmin Bhāradvāja the Bitter heard a rumor that\na 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 stood silently to one side.\nThen the Buddha, knowing Bhāradvāja the Bitter’s train of thought, addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn7.4:2","sourceIds":["sn7.4:2.1","sn7.4:2.2","sn7.4:2.3","sn7.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo appaduṭṭhassa narassa dussati,\nSuddhassa posassa anaṅgaṇassa;\nTameva bālaṁ pacceti pāpaṁ,\nSukhumo rajo paṭivātaṁva khitto”ti.","en":"“Whoever wrongs a man who has done no wrong,\na pure man who has not a blemish,\nthe evil backfires on the fool,\nlike fine dust thrown upwind.”"}},{"id":"sn7.4:3","sourceIds":["sn7.4:3.1","sn7.4:3.2","sn7.4:3.3","sn7.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, bilaṅgikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nabbhaññāsi.\nAññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṁ ahosīti.","en":"When he said this, the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Bitter said to the Buddha,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama! …” …\nAnd Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the perfected."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.4/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."}