{"id":"sn7.18","title":"Collecting Firewood","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.18","title":"Collecting Firewood","units":[{"id":"sn7.18:0","sourceIds":["sn7.18:0.1","sn7.18:0.2","sn7.18:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.18\n2. Upāsakavagga\nKaṭṭhahārasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.18\n2. Lay Followers\nCollecting Firewood"}},{"id":"sn7.18:1","sourceIds":["sn7.18:1.1","sn7.18:1.2","sn7.18:1.3","sn7.18:1.4","sn7.18:1.5","sn7.18:1.6","sn7.18:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena aññatarassa bhāradvājagottassa brāhmaṇassa sambahulā antevāsikā kaṭṭhahārakā māṇavakā yena vanasaṇḍo tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā addasaṁsu bhagavantaṁ tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe nisinnaṁ pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā. Disvāna yena bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhāradvājagottaṁ brāhmaṇaṁ etadavocuṁ:\n“yagghe bhavaṁ jāneyyāsi.\nAsukasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe samaṇo nisinno pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā”.\nAtha kho bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo tehi māṇavakehi saddhiṁ yena so vanasaṇḍo tenupasaṅkami.\nAddasā kho bhagavantaṁ tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe nisinnaṁ pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.\nDisvāna 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.\nThen several students, pupils of one of the Bhāradvāja brahmins, approached a forest grove while collecting firewood. They 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. Seeing this, they went up to Bhāradvāja and said to him,\n“Please sir, you should know this.\nIn such-and-such forest grove the ascetic Gotama is sitting down cross-legged, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present.”\nThen Bhāradvāja together with those young students went to that forest grove\nwhere he saw the Buddha sitting down cross-legged, his body set straight, and mindfulness brought to the present.\nHe went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn7.18:2","sourceIds":["sn7.18:2.1","sn7.18:2.2","sn7.18:2.3","sn7.18:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Gambhīrarūpe bahubherave vane,\nSuññaṁ araññaṁ vijanaṁ vigāhiya;\nAniñjamānena ṭhitena vaggunā,\nSucārurūpaṁ vata bhikkhu jhāyasi.","en":"“Deep in the jungle so full of terrors,\nyou’ve plunged into the empty, desolate wilderness.\nStill, steady, and graceful:\nhow beautifully you meditate, mendicant!"}},{"id":"sn7.18:3","sourceIds":["sn7.18:3.1","sn7.18:3.2","sn7.18:3.3","sn7.18:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na yattha gītaṁ napi yattha vāditaṁ,\nEko araññe vanavassito muni;\nAccherarūpaṁ paṭibhāti maṁ idaṁ,\nYadekako pītimano vane vase.","en":"Where there is no song or music,\na lonely sage resorts to the wilderness.\nThis strikes me as an amazing thing,\nthat you dwell so joyfully alone in the jungle."}},{"id":"sn7.18:4","sourceIds":["sn7.18:4.1","sn7.18:4.2","sn7.18:4.3","sn7.18:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Maññāmahaṁ lokādhipatisahabyataṁ,\nĀkaṅkhamāno tidivaṁ anuttaraṁ;\nKasmā bhavaṁ vijanamaraññamassito,\nTapo idha kubbasi brahmapattiyā”ti.","en":"I suppose you wish to be reborn in the company\nof the supreme world-sovereign of the Third Heaven.\nIs that why you resort to the desolate wilderness,\nto practice fervor for attaining divinity?”"}},{"id":"sn7.18:5","sourceIds":["sn7.18:5.1","sn7.18:5.2","sn7.18:5.3","sn7.18:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yā kāci kaṅkhā abhinandanā vā,\nAnekadhātūsu puthū sadāsitā;\nAññāṇamūlappabhavā pajappitā,\nSabbā mayā byantikatā samūlikā.","en":"“Any wishes and hopes that are always attached\nto the many and various realms—\nthe prayers sprung from the root of unknowing—\nI’ve eliminated them all down to the root."}},{"id":"sn7.18:6","sourceIds":["sn7.18:6.1","sn7.18:6.2","sn7.18:6.3","sn7.18:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Svāhaṁ akaṅkho asito anūpayo,\nSabbesu dhammesu visuddhadassano;\nPappuyya sambodhimanuttaraṁ sivaṁ,\nJhāyāmahaṁ brahma raho visārado”ti.","en":"So I’m wishless, unattached, uninvolved;\namongst all things, my vision is clear.\nI’ve attained the state of grace, the supreme awakening;\nI meditate alone, brahmin, and self-assured.”"}},{"id":"sn7.18:7","sourceIds":["sn7.18:7.1","sn7.18:7.2","sn7.18:7.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\najjatagge pāṇupetaṁ saraṇaṁ gatan”ti.","en":"When he had spoken, Bhāradvāja said to the Buddha,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent! …\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/sn7.18/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."}