{"id":"sn7.17","title":"The Builder","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.17","title":"The Builder","units":[{"id":"sn7.17:0","sourceIds":["sn7.17:0.1","sn7.17:0.2","sn7.17:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.17\n2. Upāsakavagga\nNavakammikasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.17\n2. Lay Followers\nThe Builder"}},{"id":"sn7.17:1","sourceIds":["sn7.17:1.1","sn7.17:1.2","sn7.17:1.3","sn7.17:1.4","sn7.17:1.5","sn7.17:1.6","sn7.17:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena navakammikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe kammantaṁ kārāpeti.\nAddasā kho navakammikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ aññatarasmiṁ sālarukkhamūle nisinnaṁ pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.\nDisvānassa etadahosi:\n“ahaṁ kho imasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe kammantaṁ kārāpento ramāmi.\nAyaṁ samaṇo gotamo kiṁ kārāpento ramatī”ti?\nAtha kho navakammikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami. upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.\nNow at that time the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Builder was having some building work done in that jungle thicket.\nHe saw the Buddha sitting down cross-legged at the root of a certain sal tree, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present.\nSeeing this, it occurred to him,\n“I enjoy having this building work done here in the jungle.\nI wonder what the ascetic Gotama enjoys having done?”\nThen Bhāradvāja the Builder went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn7.17:2","sourceIds":["sn7.17:2.1","sn7.17:2.2","sn7.17:2.3","sn7.17:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ke nu kammantā karīyanti,\nbhikkhu sālavane tava;\nYadekako araññasmiṁ,\nratiṁ vindati gotamo”ti.","en":"“What kind of works are done by you,\na mendicant in the sal jungle?\nHow do you find enjoyment\nalone in the wilderness, Gotama?”"}},{"id":"sn7.17:3","sourceIds":["sn7.17:3.1","sn7.17:3.2","sn7.17:3.3","sn7.17:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na me vanasmiṁ karaṇīyamatthi,\nUcchinnamūlaṁ me vanaṁ visūkaṁ;\nSvāhaṁ vane nibbanatho visallo,\nEko rame aratiṁ vippahāyā”ti.","en":"“There’s nothing I need do in the jungle;\nmy jungle’s cut at the root, it’s withered away.\nFree of snarls and thorns in the jungle,\nI enjoy solitude, having given up discontent.”"}},{"id":"sn7.17:4","sourceIds":["sn7.17:4.1","sn7.17:4.2","sn7.17:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, navakammikabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nupāsakaṁ maṁ bhavaṁ gotamo dhāretu ajjatagge pāṇupetaṁ saraṇaṁ gatan”ti.","en":"When he had spoken, the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Builder said to the Buddha,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama …\nFrom this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.17/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."}