{"id":"snp1.4","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Farmer","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp1.4","title":"With Bhāradvāja the Farmer","units":[{"id":"snp1.4:0","sourceIds":["snp1.4:0.1","snp1.4:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 1.4\nKasibhāradvājasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 1.4\nWith Bhāradvāja the Farmer"}},{"id":"snp1.4:1","sourceIds":["snp1.4:1.1","snp1.4:1.2","snp1.4:1.3","snp1.4:1.4","snp1.4:1.5","snp1.4:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā magadhesu viharati dakkhiṇāgirismiṁ ekanāḷāyaṁ brāhmaṇagāme.\nTena kho pana samayena kasibhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa pañcamattāni naṅgalasatāni payuttāni honti vappakāle.\nAtha kho bhagavā pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya yena kasibhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa kammanto tenupasaṅkami.\nTena kho pana samayena kasibhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa parivesanā vattati.\nAtha kho bhagavā yena parivesanā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Magadhans in the Southern Hills near the brahmin village of Ekanāḷa.\nNow at that time the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Farmer had harnessed around five hundred plows, it being the season for sowing.\nThen the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to where Bhāradvāja the Farmer was working.\nNow at that time Bhāradvāja the Farmer was distributing food.\nThen the Buddha went to where the distribution was taking place and stood to one side."}},{"id":"snp1.4:2","sourceIds":["snp1.4:2.1","snp1.4:2.2","snp1.4:2.3","snp1.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Addasā kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ piṇḍāya ṭhitaṁ.\nDisvāna bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ahaṁ kho, samaṇa, kasāmi ca vapāmi ca; kasitvā ca vapitvā ca bhuñjāmi.\nTvampi, samaṇa, kasassu ca vapassu ca; kasitvā ca vapitvā ca bhuñjassū”ti.","en":"Bhāradvāja the Farmer saw him standing for alms\nand said to him,\n“I plough and sow, ascetic, and then I eat.\nYou too should plough and sow, then you may eat.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:3","sourceIds":["snp1.4:3.1","snp1.4:3.2","snp1.4:3.3","snp1.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ahampi kho, brāhmaṇa, kasāmi ca vapāmi ca; kasitvā ca vapitvā ca bhuñjāmī”ti.\n“Na kho pana mayaṁ passāma bhoto gotamassa yugaṁ vā naṅgalaṁ vā phālaṁ vā pācanaṁ vā balībadde vā.\nAtha ca pana bhavaṁ gotamo evamāha:\n‘ahampi kho, brāhmaṇa, kasāmi ca vapāmi ca; kasitvā ca vapitvā ca bhuñjāmī’”ti.","en":"“I too plough and sow, brahmin, and then I eat.”\n“I don’t see the worthy Gotama with a yoke or plow or plowshare or goad or oxen, yet he says:\n‘I too plough and sow, brahmin, and then I eat.’”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:4","sourceIds":["snp1.4:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then Bhāradvāja the Farmer addressed the Buddha in verse:"}},{"id":"snp1.4:5","sourceIds":["snp1.4:5.1","snp1.4:5.2","snp1.4:5.3","snp1.4:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kassako paṭijānāsi,\nna ca passāma te kasiṁ;\nKasiṁ no pucchito brūhi,\nyathā jānemu te kasiṁ”.","en":"“You claim to be a farmer,\nbut I don’t see you farming.\nTell me your farming when asked,\nso I can recognize your farming.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:6","sourceIds":["snp1.4:6.1","snp1.4:6.2","snp1.4:6.3","snp1.4:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Saddhā bījaṁ tapo vuṭṭhi,\npaññā me yuganaṅgalaṁ;\nHirī īsā mano yottaṁ,\nsati me phālapācanaṁ.","en":"“Faith is my seed, fervor my rain,\nand wisdom is my yoke and plough.\nConscience is my draft-pole, mind my strap,\nmindfulness my plowshare and goad."}},{"id":"snp1.4:7","sourceIds":["snp1.4:7.1","snp1.4:7.2","snp1.4:7.3","snp1.4:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāyagutto vacīgutto,\nāhāre udare yato;\nSaccaṁ karomi niddānaṁ,\nsoraccaṁ me pamocanaṁ.","en":"Guarded in body and speech,\nI restrict my intake of food.\nI use truth as my scythe,\nand gentleness is my release."}},{"id":"snp1.4:8","sourceIds":["snp1.4:8.1","snp1.4:8.2","snp1.4:8.3","snp1.4:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vīriyaṁ me dhuradhorayhaṁ,\nyogakkhemādhivāhanaṁ;\nGacchati anivattantaṁ,\nyattha gantvā na socati.","en":"Energy is my harnessed beast,\ntransporting me to sanctuary from the yoke.\nWithout turning back, it goes\nto where there is no sorrow."}},{"id":"snp1.4:9","sourceIds":["snp1.4:9.1","snp1.4:9.2","snp1.4:9.3","snp1.4:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evamesā kasī kaṭṭhā,\nSā hoti amatapphalā;\nEtaṁ kasiṁ kasitvāna,\nSabbadukkhā pamuccatī”ti.","en":"That’s how to do the farming\nthat has freedom from death as its fruit.\nWhen you finish this farming\nyou’re released from all suffering.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:10","sourceIds":["snp1.4:10.1","snp1.4:10.2","snp1.4:10.3","snp1.4:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo mahatiyā kaṁsapātiyā pāyasaṁ vaḍḍhetvā bhagavato upanāmesi:\n“bhuñjatu bhavaṁ gotamo pāyasaṁ.\nKassako bhavaṁ;\nyañhi bhavaṁ gotamo amatapphalaṁ kasiṁ kasatī”ti.","en":"Then Bhāradvāja the Farmer poured milk-rice in a large bronze cup and presented it to the Buddha:\n“May the worthy Gotama eat the milk-rice!\nThe worthy one is a farmer.\nFor the worthy Gotama does the farming that has freedom from death as its fruit.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:11","sourceIds":["snp1.4:11.1","snp1.4:11.2","snp1.4:11.3","snp1.4:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Gāthābhigītaṁ me abhojaneyyaṁ,\nSampassataṁ brāhmaṇa nesa dhammo;\nGāthābhigītaṁ panudanti buddhā,\nDhamme satī brāhmaṇa vuttiresā.","en":"“Food enchanted by a verse isn’t fit for me to eat.\nThat’s not the principle of those who see, brahmin.\nThe Buddhas cast aside things enchanted with verses.\nSince there is such a principle, brahmin, that’s how they live."}},{"id":"snp1.4:12","sourceIds":["snp1.4:12.1","snp1.4:12.2","snp1.4:12.3","snp1.4:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aññena ca kevalinaṁ mahesiṁ,\nKhīṇāsavaṁ kukkuccavūpasantaṁ;\nAnnena pānena upaṭṭhahassu,\nKhettaṁ hi taṁ puññapekkhassa hotī”ti.","en":"Serve with other food and drink\nthe consummate one, the great seer,\nwith defilements ended and remorse stilled.\nFor he is the field for the seeker of merit.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:13","sourceIds":["snp1.4:13.1","snp1.4:13.2","snp1.4:13.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Atha kassa cāhaṁ, bho gotama, imaṁ pāyasaṁ dammī”ti?\n“Na khvāhaṁ taṁ, brāhmaṇa, passāmi sadevake loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya, yassa so pāyaso bhutto sammā pariṇāmaṁ gaccheyya, aññatra tathāgatassa vā tathāgatasāvakassa vā.\nTena hi tvaṁ, brāhmaṇa, taṁ pāyasaṁ appaharite vā chaḍḍehi appāṇake vā udake opilāpehī”ti.","en":"“Then, worthy Gotama, to whom should I give the milk-rice?”\n“Brahmin, I don’t see anyone in this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—who can properly digest this milk-rice, except the Realized One or one of his disciples.\nWell then, brahmin, throw out the milk-rice where there is little that grows, or drop it into water that has no living creatures.”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:14","sourceIds":["snp1.4:14.1","snp1.4:14.2","snp1.4:14.3","snp1.4:14.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo taṁ pāyasaṁ appāṇake udake opilāpesi.\nAtha kho so pāyaso udake pakkhitto cicciṭāyati ciṭiciṭāyati sandhūpāyati sampadhūpāyati.\nSeyyathāpi nāma phālo divasaṁ santatto udake pakkhitto cicciṭāyati ciṭiciṭāyati sandhūpāyati sampadhūpāyati;\nevamevaṁ so pāyaso udake pakkhitto cicciṭāyati ciṭiciṭāyati sandhūpāyati sampadhūpāyati.","en":"So Bhāradvāja the Farmer dropped the milk-rice in water that had no living creatures.\nAnd when the milk-rice was placed in the water, it sizzled and hissed, steaming and fuming.\nSuppose there was an iron cauldron that had been heated all day. If you placed it in the water, it would sizzle and hiss, steaming and fuming.\nIn the same way, when the milk-rice was placed in the water, it sizzled and hissed, steaming and fuming."}},{"id":"snp1.4:15","sourceIds":["snp1.4:15.1","snp1.4:15.2","snp1.4:15.3","snp1.4:15.4","snp1.4:15.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo saṁviggo lomahaṭṭhajāto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato pādesu sirasā nipatitvā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama.\nSeyyathāpi, bho gotama, nikkujjitaṁ vā ukkujjeyya, paṭicchannaṁ vā vivareyya, mūḷhassa vā maggaṁ ācikkheyya, andhakāre vā telapajjotaṁ dhāreyya, ‘cakkhumanto rūpāni dakkhantī’ti; evamevaṁ bhotā gotamena anekapariyāyena dhammo pakāsito.\nEsāhaṁ bhavantaṁ gotamaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi dhammañca bhikkhusaṅghañca,\nlabheyyāhaṁ bhoto gotamassa santike pabbajjaṁ, labheyyaṁ upasampadan”ti.","en":"Then Bhāradvāja the Farmer, shocked and awestruck, went up to the Buddha, bowed down with his head to the Buddha’s feet, and said,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent!\nAs if he were righting the overturned, or revealing the hidden, or pointing out the path to the lost, or lighting a lamp in the dark so people with clear eyes can see what’s there, worthy Gotama has made the teaching clear in many ways.\nI go for refuge to the worthy Gotama, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha.\nMay I receive the going forth, the ordination in the worthy Gotama’s presence?”"}},{"id":"snp1.4:16","sourceIds":["snp1.4:16.1","snp1.4:16.2","snp1.4:16.3","snp1.4:16.4","snp1.4:16.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Alattha kho kasibhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavato santike pabbajjaṁ, alattha upasampadaṁ.\nAcirūpasampanno kho panāyasmā bhāradvājo eko vūpakaṭṭho appamatto ātāpī pahitatto viharanto nacirasseva—yassatthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti, tadanuttaraṁ—brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāsi.\n“Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā”ti abbhaññāsi.\nAññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṁ ahosīti.\nKasibhāradvājasuttaṁ catutthaṁ.","en":"And Bhāradvāja the Farmer received the going forth, the ordination in the Buddha’s presence.\nNot long after his ordination, Venerable Bhāradvāja, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.\nHe understood: “Rebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.”\nAnd Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the perfected."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp1.4/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."}