{"id":"sn7.19","title":"The Brahmin Who Provided for His Mother","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.19","title":"The Brahmin Who Provided for His Mother","units":[{"id":"sn7.19:0","sourceIds":["sn7.19:0.1","sn7.19:0.2","sn7.19:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.19\n2. Upāsakavagga\nMātuposakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.19\n2. Lay Followers\nThe Brahmin Who Provided for His Mother"}},{"id":"sn7.19:1","sourceIds":["sn7.19:1.1","sn7.19:1.2","sn7.19:1.3","sn7.19:1.4","sn7.19:1.5","sn7.19:1.6","sn7.19:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho mātuposako brāhmaṇo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavatā saddhiṁ sammodi.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho mātuposako brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ahañhi, bho gotama, dhammena bhikkhaṁ pariyesāmi, dhammena bhikkhaṁ pariyesitvā mātāpitaro posemi.\nKaccāhaṁ, bho gotama, evaṅkārī kiccakārī homī”ti?\n“Taggha tvaṁ, brāhmaṇa, evaṅkārī kiccakārī hosi.\nYo kho, brāhmaṇa, dhammena bhikkhaṁ pariyesati, dhammena bhikkhaṁ pariyesitvā mātāpitaro poseti, bahuṁ so puññaṁ pasavatīti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen a brahmin who provided for his mother went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him.\nWhen the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha,\n“Worthy Gotama, I seek alms by legitimate means, which I use to provide for my mother and father.\nIn doing so, am I doing my duty?”\n“Indeed, brahmin, in so doing you are doing your duty.\nWhoever seeks alms by legitimate means, and uses them to provide for their mother and father brims with much merit."}},{"id":"sn7.19:2","sourceIds":["sn7.19:2.1","sn7.19:2.2","sn7.19:2.3","sn7.19:2.4","sn7.19:2.5","sn7.19:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo mātaraṁ pitaraṁ vā,\nmacco dhammena posati;\nTāya naṁ pāricariyāya,\nmātāpitūsu paṇḍitā;\nIdheva naṁ pasaṁsanti,\npecca sagge pamodatī”ti.","en":"A mortal provides for their mother\nand father by legitimate means;\nbecause they serve\ntheir parents like this,\nthey’re praised in this life by the astute,\nand they depart to rejoice in heaven.”"}},{"id":"sn7.19:3","sourceIds":["sn7.19:3.1","sn7.19:3.2","sn7.19:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, mātuposako brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nupāsakaṁ maṁ bhavaṁ gotamo dhāretu ajjatagge pāṇupetaṁ saraṇaṁ gatan”ti.","en":"When he said this, the brahmin who provided for his mother 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/sn7.19/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."}