{"id":"sn9.3","title":"With Kassapagotta","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.3","title":"With Kassapagotta","units":[{"id":"sn9.3:0","sourceIds":["sn9.3:0.1","sn9.3:0.2","sn9.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.3\n1. Vanavagga\nKassapagottasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.3\n1. In the Woods\nWith Kassapagotta"}},{"id":"sn9.3:1","sourceIds":["sn9.3:1.1","sn9.3:1.2","sn9.3:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā kassapagotto kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā kassapagotto divāvihāragato aññataraṁ chetaṁ ovadati.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā āyasmantaṁ kassapagottaṁ saṁvejetukāmā yenāyasmā kassapagotto tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmantaṁ kassapagottaṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At one time Venerable Kassapagotta was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.\nNow at that time Venerable Kassapagotta, having withdrawn for his day’s meditation, tried to advise a nimrod.\nThen the deity haunting that forest approached Kassapagotta wanting to stir him up, and recited these verses:"}},{"id":"sn9.3:2","sourceIds":["sn9.3:2.1","sn9.3:2.2","sn9.3:2.3","sn9.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Giriduggacaraṁ chetaṁ,\nappapaññaṁ acetasaṁ;\nAkāle ovadaṁ bhikkhu,\nmandova paṭibhāti maṁ.","en":"“A nimrod wandering the rugged hills\nis unintelligent, unthinking.\nIt’s a waste of time to advise him, mendicant;\nhe strikes me as a dullard."}},{"id":"sn9.3:3","sourceIds":["sn9.3:3.1","sn9.3:3.2","sn9.3:3.3","sn9.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Suṇāti na vijānāti,\nĀloketi na passati;\nDhammasmiṁ bhaññamānasmiṁ,\nAtthaṁ bālo na bujjhati.","en":"He listens without understanding,\nlooks without seeing.\nThough the teaching is spoken,\nthe fool doesn’t get it."}},{"id":"sn9.3:4","sourceIds":["sn9.3:4.1","sn9.3:4.2","sn9.3:4.3","sn9.3:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sacepi dasa pajjote,\ndhārayissasi kassapa;\nNeva dakkhati rūpāni,\ncakkhu hissa na vijjatī”ti.","en":"Even if you lit ten lamps\nand brought them to him, Kassapa,\nhe wouldn’t see anything,\nfor he has no eyes to see.”"}},{"id":"sn9.3:5","sourceIds":["sn9.3:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā kassapagotto tāya devatāya saṁvejito saṁvegamāpādīti.","en":"Impelled by that deity, Venerable Kassapagotta was struck with a sense of urgency."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.3/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."}