Dighanikaya 23.411

23.411

Ime bho, kassapa, candimasūriyāti so kira therena pucchito cintesi ‘‘ayaṃ samaṇo paṭhamaṃ candimasūriye upamaṃ āhari, candimasūriyasadiso bhavissati paññāya, anabhibhavanīyo aññena, sace panāhaṃ ‘candimasūriyā imasmiṃ loke’ti bhaṇissāmi, ‘kiṃ nissitā ete, kittakapamāṇā, kittakaṃ uccā’tiādīhi paliveṭhessati. Ahaṃ kho panetaṃ nibbeṭhetuṃ na sakkhissāmi, ‘parasmiṃ loke’ iccevassa kathessāmī’’ti. Tasmā evamāha.

“These, master Kassapa, the moon and the sun”: questioned, it is said, by the elder, he thought: “This ascetic has at first brought forth the simile of the moon and the sun. He will be like the moon and the sun in wisdom, insurmountable by another. But if I say, ‘The moon and the sun are in this world,’ he will entangle [me] with questions like ‘What are they dependent on? Of what size are they? How high are they?’ But I will not be able to disentangle that. I will tell him just, ‘In the other world.’” Therefore he spoke thus.