Dighanikaya 24.3

24.3

Bhagavantaṃ uddissāti bhagavā me satthā ‘‘bhagavato ahaṃ ovādaṃ paṭikaromī’’ti evaṃ apadisitvā. Ko santo kaṃ paccācikkhasīti yācako vā yācitakaṃ paccācikkheyya, yācitako vā yācakaṃ. Tvaṃ pana neva yācako na yācitako, evaṃ sante, moghapurisa, ko santo ko samāno kaṃ paccācikkhasīti dasseti. Passa moghapurisāti passa tucchapurisa. Yāvañca te idaṃ aparaddhanti yattakaṃ idaṃ tava aparaddhaṃ, yattako te aparādho tattako dosoti evāhaṃ bhaggava tassa dosaṃ āropesinti dasseti.

“Dedicated to the Blessed One”: having represented thus: “The Blessed One is my Teacher, I fulfill the instruction of the Blessed One.” “Being who, what do you renounce?”: an applicant would renounce the one asked of, or the one asked of would renounce the applicant. But you are neither the applicant nor the one asked of; this being so, foolish man, being who, being what sort of person, what do you renounce?—this is what he shows. “See, foolish man”: see, empty man. “And how far you have failed in this”: as much as this is your failure, as much as is your fault, so much is the offense—thus I, Bhaggava, attributed the offense to him; this is what he shows.