Dighanikaya 25.57

25.57

Appasadde katvāti nirave appasadde katvā. So kira cintesi – ‘‘samaṇo gotamo ekaṃ pañhampi na katheti, sallāpakathāpissa atibahukā natthi, ime pana ādito paṭṭhāya samaṇaṃ gotamaṃ anuvattanti ceva pasaṃsanti ca, handāhaṃ ime nissadde katvā sayaṃ kathemī’’ti. So tathā akāsi. Tena vuttaṃ ‘‘appasadde katvā’’ti. ‘‘Tapojigucchavādā’’tiādīsu tapojigucchaṃ vadāma, manasāpi tameva sārato gahetvā vicarāma, kāyenapimhā tameva allīnā, nānappakārakaṃ attakilamathānuyogamanuyuttā viharāmāti attho.

"Having made them quiet": having made them noiseless and quiet. He, it is said, thought: "The recluse Gotama does not answer even a single question, nor does he have much conversation; but these [monks], from the very beginning, both comply with and praise the recluse Gotama. Let me silence them and speak myself." He did so. Hence it is said: "Having made them quiet." In "we hold the doctrine of ascetic scrupulousness" and so forth: we advocate ascetic scrupulousness; taking only that as essential with our minds, we go about; with our bodies too we adhere to it; we dwell engaged in various practices of self-mortification—this is the meaning.