Dighanikaya 3.262

3.262

Atha kho bhagavāti atha bhagavā – ‘‘ayaṃ māṇavo hatthaṃ pasāretvā bhavaggaṃ gahetukāmo viya, pādaṃ pasāretvā avīciṃ vicaritukāmo viya, mahāsamuddaṃ taritukāmo viya, sineruṃ ārohitukāmo viya ca aṭṭhāne vāyamati, handa, tena saddhiṃ mantemī’’ti ambaṭṭhaṃ māṇavaṃ etadavoca. Ācariyapācariyehīti ācariyehi ca tesaṃ ācariyehi ca.

“Then the Blessed One”: then the Blessed One, thinking, “This young man is striving in the wrong place, like one wanting to stretch out his hand to seize the peak of existence, like one wanting to stretch out his foot to walk through Avīci, like one wanting to cross the great ocean, or like one wanting to climb Sineru. Come now, I will converse with him,” said this to the young man Ambaṭṭha. “With the teachers and teachers’ teachers”: with the teachers and with their teachers.