{"id":"sn7.20","title":"An Almsman","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.20","title":"An Almsman","units":[{"id":"sn7.20:0","sourceIds":["sn7.20:0.1","sn7.20:0.2","sn7.20:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.20\n2. Upāsakavagga\nBhikkhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.20\n2. Lay Followers\nAn Almsman"}},{"id":"sn7.20:1","sourceIds":["sn7.20:1.1","sn7.20:1.2","sn7.20:1.3","sn7.20:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho bhikkhako brāhmaṇo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavatā saddhiṁ sammodi.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho bhikkhako brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ahampi kho, bho gotama, bhikkhako, bhavampi bhikkhako, idha no kiṁ nānākaraṇan”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen a brahmin almsman 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, both you and I are almsmen. What, then, is the difference between us?”"}},{"id":"sn7.20:2","sourceIds":["sn7.20:2.1","sn7.20:2.2","sn7.20:2.3","sn7.20:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na tena bhikkhako hoti,\nyāvatā bhikkhate pare;\nVissaṁ dhammaṁ samādāya,\nbhikkhu hoti na tāvatā.","en":"“You don’t become an almsman\njust by begging alms from others.\nOne who has undertaken domestic duties\nhas not yet become a mendicant."}},{"id":"sn7.20:3","sourceIds":["sn7.20:3.1","sn7.20:3.2","sn7.20:3.3","sn7.20:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yodha puññañca pāpañca,\nbāhitvā brahmacariyaṁ;\nSaṅkhāya loke carati,\nsa ve bhikkhūti vuccatī”ti.","en":"But one living a spiritual life\nwho has banished both merit and evil,\nand wanders having appraised the world,\nis said to be a mendicant.”"}},{"id":"sn7.20:4","sourceIds":["sn7.20:4.1","sn7.20:4.2","sn7.20:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, bhikkhako brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nupāsakaṁ maṁ bhavaṁ gotamo dhāretu ajjatagge pāṇupetaṁ saraṇaṁ gatan”ti.","en":"When he had spoken, the brahmin almsman 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/sn7.20/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."}