Dighanikaya 25.53_2

25.53_2

Yaggheti codanatthe nipāto. Jāneyyāsīti bujjheyyāsi passeyyāsi. Kena samaṇo gotamo saddhiṃ sallapatīti kena kāraṇena kena puggalena saddhiṃ samaṇo gotamo sallapati vadati bhāsati. Kiṃ vuttaṃ hoti – ‘‘yadi kiñci sallāpakāraṇaṃ bhaveyya, yadi vā koci samaṇassa gotamassa santikaṃ sallāpatthiko gaccheyya, sallapeyya, na pana kāraṇaṃ atthi, na tassa santikaṃ koci gacchati, svāyaṃ kena samaṇo gotamo saddhiṃ sallapati, asallapanto kathaṃ unnādī bhavissatī’’ti.

"Yagghe" is a particle in the sense of urging. "Jāneyyāsi" means you should know, you should see. "With whom does the recluse Gotama converse?": for what reason, with what person does the recluse Gotama converse, speak, talk? What is meant is: "If there were any reason for conversation, or if anyone desiring conversation were to go into the presence of the recluse Gotama, he might converse; but there is no reason, nor does anyone go into his presence; with whom, then, does this recluse Gotama converse? Not conversing, how will he be one who makes a roar?"