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Khuddaka Nikāya - The Minor Texts

Sutta Nipata

Sutta Nipata 2: The Lesser Chapter

2:6 A Righteous Life

2:6 A Righteous Life

274 A righteous life, a spiritual life,
they call this the supreme treasure.
But if someone goes forth
from the lay life to homelessness

275 who is of scurrilous character,
a beast and a bully,
their life gets worse,
as poison grows inside them.

276 A mendicant who loves to argue,
wrapped in delusion,
doesn’t even know what’s been explained
in the Dhamma taught by the Buddha.

277 Harassing those who are evolved,
governed by ignorance,
they don’t know that corruption
is the path that leads to hell.

278 Entering the underworld,
passing from womb to womb, from darkness to darkness,
such a mendicant
falls into suffering after death.


279 One such as that is
like a sewer
brimful with years of filth
for it’s hard to clean one full of grime.

280 Mendicants, knowing that someone is like this,
attached to the lay life,
of wicked desires and wicked intent,
of bad behavior and alms-resort,

281 then having gathered in harmony,
you should expel them.
Throw out the trash!
Get rid of the rubbish!

282 And sweep away the scraps—
they’re not ascetics, they just think they are.
When you’ve thrown out those of wicked desires,
of bad behavior and alms-resort,

283 dwell in communion, ever mindful,
the pure with the pure.
Then in harmony, alert,
you’ll make an end to suffering.”

2:6 Kapilasutta (dhammacariyasutta)

274Dhammacariyaṁ brahmacariyaṁ,
Etadāhu vasuttamaṁ;
Pabbajitopi ce hoti,
Agārā anagāriyaṁ.

275 So ce mukharajātiko,
vihesābhirato mago;
Jīvitaṁ tassa pāpiyo,
rajaṁ vaḍḍheti attano.

276 Kalahābhirato bhikkhu,
Mohadhammena āvuto;
Akkhātampi na jānāti,
Dhammaṁ buddhena desitaṁ.

277 Vihesaṁ bhāvitattānaṁ,
avijjāya purakkhato;
Saṅkilesaṁ na jānāti,
maggaṁ nirayagāminaṁ.

278 Vinipātaṁ samāpanno,
gabbhā gabbhaṁ tamā tamaṁ;
Sa ve tādisako bhikkhu,
pecca dukkhaṁ nigacchati.


279 Gūthakūpo yathā assa,
sampuṇṇo gaṇavassiko;
Yo ca evarūpo assa,
dubbisodho hi sāṅgaṇo.

280 Yaṁ evarūpaṁ jānātha,
bhikkhavo gehanissitaṁ;
Pāpicchaṁ pāpasaṅkappaṁ,
pāpaācāragocaraṁ.

281 Sabbe samaggā hutvāna,
abhinibbajjiyātha naṁ;
Kāraṇḍavaṁ niddhamatha,
kasambuṁ apakassatha.

282 Tato palāpe vāhetha,
Assamaṇe samaṇamānine;
Niddhamitvāna pāpicche,
Pāpaācāragocare.

283 Suddhā suddhehi saṁvāsaṁ,
Kappayavho patissatā;
Tato samaggā nipakā,
Dukkhassantaṁ karissathāti.

Dhammacariyasuttaṁ chaṭṭhaṁ.