With Pāyāsi 2: 1. On Pāyāsi
With Pāyāsi 2
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1. On Pāyāsi
2.1
Now at that time Pāyāsi had the following harmful misconception:
2.2
“There is no afterlife. No beings are reborn spontaneously. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds.”
2.3
The brahmins and householders of Setavyā heard,
2.4
“It seems the ascetic Kassapa the Prince—a disciple of the ascetic Gotama—is staying in the rosewood grove to the north of Setavyā.
2.5
He has this good reputation:
2.6
‘He is astute, competent, intelligent, learned, a brilliant speaker, eloquent, mature, a perfected one.’
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It’s good to see such perfected ones.”
2.8
Then, exiting Setavyā, they formed into companies and headed north to the grove.
Translations (2)
- Razgovor sa Pāyāsijem — sr
- Mit Pāyāsi — German
Linked texts (1)
- Pāyāsisutta — Pāli