Samannaphalasutta 1.37

1.37

‘Can you, Lord, show me any other fruit, visible in this world, of the life of a recluse?’
‘I can, O king. And to that end I would fain put a question, &c. [as before, to the end of Section 36, the case now put being that of a free man who cultivates his land, a householder, who pays taxes and thus increases the king’s wealth, but gives up his little property and his position in his clan, and enters an Order.] ’