Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 50.4

50.4

爾時，世尊告尊者阿難曰：「若有諸外道出家來問汝言：『阿難！世尊何故教人修諸梵行？』如是問者，云何答乎？」

It was then that the Bhagavān addressed Venerable Ānanda, “Suppose some mendicants from another religion were to come and ask you, ‘Ānanda, why does the Bhagavān instruct people to cultivate religious practices?’ How would you answer someone who asks this?”