The Samyutta Nikaya
The Grouped Discourses
Samyutta Nikaya VII.6
Jata Sutta
The Tangle
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
At Savatthi. Then the brahman Jata
("Tangle") Bharadvaja went to the Blessed One and, on
arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him. After this exchange of
friendly greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side. As he was sitting
there he addressed the Blessed One with a verse:
A tangle within,
a tangle without,
people are entangled
in a tangle.
Gotama, I ask you this:
who can untangle this tangle?
[The Buddha:]
A man established in virtue,
discerning,
developing discernment & mind,
a monk ardent, astute:
he can untangle this tangle.
Those whose passion,
aversion,
&
ignorance
have faded away,
Arahants, their effluents ended:
for them the tangle's untangled.
Where name-&-form,
along with perception
of impingement & form,
totally stop without trace:
that's where the tangle
is cut.
When this was said, the brahman Jata Bharadvaja said to
the Blessed One, "Magnificent, Master Gotama!
Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to
reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a
lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same
way has Master Gotama -- through many lines of reasoning -- made the
Dhamma clear. I go to the Blessed One for refuge, to the Dhamma, & to
the community of monks. Let me obtain the going forth in Master Gotama's
presence, let me obtain admission."
Then the brahman Jata Bharadvaja
received the going forth & the admission in the Blessed One's
presence. And not long after his admission --
dwelling alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute -- he in no long
time reached & remained in the supreme goal of the holy life, for
which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing &
realizing it for himself in the here & now. He knew: "Birth is
ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further
for the sake of this world." And so Ven. Bharadvaja became another
one of the Arahants.
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