{"id":"cp25","title":"Soṇa the Astute’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp25","title":"Soṇa the Astute’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp25:0","sourceIds":["cp25:0.1","cp25:0.2","cp25:0.3","cp25:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nYudhañjayavagga\nNekkhammapāramī 5\nSoṇapaṇḍitacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter With Yudhañjaya\nThe Perfection of Renunciation (5th)\nSoṇa the Astute’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp25:1","sourceIds":["cp25:1.1","cp25:1.2","cp25:1.3","cp25:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nnagare brahmavaḍḍhane;\nTattha kulavare seṭṭhe,\nmahāsāle ajāyahaṁ.","en":"“Then again when I was\nin the city of Brahmavaḍḍhana,\nI was reborn there\nin a fine, wealthy, and eminent family."}},{"id":"cp25:2","sourceIds":["cp25:2.1","cp25:2.2","cp25:2.3","cp25:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tadāpi lokaṁ disvāna,\nAndhībhūtaṁ tamotthaṭaṁ;\nCittaṁ bhavato patikuṭati,\nTuttavegahataṁ viya.","en":"Even so, I saw that the world\nhad become blind, smothered in darkness.\nMy mind recoiled from rebirth,\nas if harshly pricked by a goad."}},{"id":"cp25:3","sourceIds":["cp25:3.1","cp25:3.2","cp25:3.3","cp25:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Disvāna vividhaṁ pāpaṁ,\nevaṁ cintesahaṁ tadā;\n‘Kadāhaṁ gehā nikkhamma,\npavisissāmi kānanaṁ’.","en":"Seeing the many forms of wickedness,\nI thought to myself:\n‘When shall I leave the house\nand enter the forest?’"}},{"id":"cp25:4","sourceIds":["cp25:4.1","cp25:4.2","cp25:4.3","cp25:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tadāpi maṁ nimantesuṁ,\nkāmabhogehi ñātayo;\nTesampi chandamācikkhiṁ,\n‘mā nimantetha tehi maṁ’.","en":"Then too my relatives invited me\nto enjoy the pleasures of the senses.\nI told them of my desire, saying,\n‘Do not invite me to such things!’"}},{"id":"cp25:5","sourceIds":["cp25:5.1","cp25:5.2","cp25:5.3","cp25:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo me kaniṭṭhako bhātā,\nnando nāmāsi paṇḍito;\nSopi maṁ anusikkhanto,\npabbajjaṁ samarocayi.","en":"My younger brother,\nwho was named Nanda the astute,\nfollowed my ethical practices,\nand chose to go forth."}},{"id":"cp25:6","sourceIds":["cp25:6.1","cp25:6.2","cp25:6.3","cp25:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ahaṁ soṇo ca nando ca,\nubho mātāpitā mama;\nTadāpi bhoge chaḍḍetvā,\npāvisimhā mahāvanan”ti.","en":"I, Soṇa, and Nanda,\nand both my mother and father,\nthen discarded our riches\nand entered the great forest.”"}},{"id":"cp25:7","sourceIds":["cp25:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Soṇapaṇḍitacariyaṁ pañcamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp25/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."}