Dighanikaya 25.56

25.56

Dujjānaṃ khoti bhagavā paribbājakassa vacanaṃ sutvā ‘‘ayaṃ paribbājako mayā sāvakānaṃ desetabbaṃ dhammaṃ tehi pūretabbaṃ paṭipattiṃ pucchati, sacassāhaṃ āditova taṃ kathessāmi, kathitampi naṃ na jānissati, ayaṃ pana vīriyena pāpajigucchanavādo, handāhaṃ etasseva visaye pañhaṃ pucchāpetvā puthusamaṇabrāhmaṇānaṃ laddhiyā niratthakabhāvaṃ dassemi. Atha pacchā imaṃ pañhaṃ byākarissāmī’’ti cintetvā dujjānaṃ kho etantiādimāha. Tattha sake ācariyaketi attano ācariyavāde. Adhijeguccheti vīriyena pāpajigucchanabhāve. Kathaṃ santāti kathaṃ bhūtā. Tapojigucchāti vīriyena pāpajigucchā pāpavivajjanā. Paripuṇṇāti parisuddhā. Kathaṃ aparipuṇṇāti kathaṃ aparisuddhā hotīti evaṃ pucchāti. Yatra hi nāmāti yo nāma.

"It is hard to know": the Blessed One, having heard the wanderer's words, thought: "This wanderer asks about the Dhamma to be taught by me to the disciples, the practice to be fulfilled by them. If I tell him that from the very beginning, he will not understand even when told; but this one holds the doctrine of scrupulousness regarding evil through ascetic energy. Let me, having him ask questions in his own domain, show the fruitlessness of the views of ordinary recluses and brahmins. Then afterwards I will answer this question." Having thought thus, he said: "It is hard to know this," and so forth. In that passage, "in your own teacher's doctrine": in the doctrine of one's own teacher. "In higher scrupulousness": in the state of being scrupulous about evil through ascetic energy. "How they are": of what nature they are. "Ascetic scrupulousness": scrupulousness about evil through energy, the avoidance of evil. "Fulfilled": purified. "How it is unfulfilled": ask thus: 'How does it become unpurified?' "Inasmuch as": which indeed.