{"id":"thag1.14","title":"The Novice Sivaka","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag1.14","title":"The Novice Sivaka","units":[{"id":"thag1.14:0","sourceIds":["thag1.14:0.1","thag1.14:0.2","thag1.14:0.3","thag1.14:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 1.14\nEkakanipāta\nDutiyavagga\nSivakasāmaṇeragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 1.14\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Two\nThe Novice Sivaka"}},{"id":"thag1.14:1","sourceIds":["thag1.14:1.1","thag1.14:1.2","thag1.14:1.3","thag1.14:1.4","thag1.14:1.5","thag1.14:1.6","thag1.14:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Upajjhāyo maṁ avaca,\nito gacchāma sīvaka;\nGāme me vasati kāyo,\naraññaṁ me gato mano;\nSemānakopi gacchāmi,\nnatthi saṅgo vijānatan”ti.\n… Vanavacchassa therassa (siviko) sāmaṇero ….","en":"My mentor said to me:\n“Let’s leave here, Sīvaka.”\nMy body lives in the village,\nbut my mind has gone to the wilderness.\nI go there even when lying down—\nyou can’t chain those who know."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag1.14/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."}
