Brahmin Karanapali
Kāraṇapāli [Kāraṇapālī] (AN 5.194)
At one time The Blessed One lived in the gabled hall in the Great Forest in Vesali. At that time the Brahmin Karanapali was doing some work of the Licchavis and saw the Brahmin Pingiya coming in the distance and said thus to the Brahmin pingiya:
Where, does good Pingiya go during the day time?
Here, I am returning from the presence of the recluse Gotama.
Good Pingiya, how is the wisdom of the recluse Gotama, do you think he is wise?
Who am I to know the extent of wisdom of the recluse Gotama? Someone like him should know the extent of wisdom of the recluse Gotama.
Good Pingiya praises the recluse Gotama very highly.
Among gods and men good Gotama deserves the highest praise
Why is good Pingiya so pleased in the recluse Gotama?
Like a man who has tasted the highest taste, would not be pleased with other lesser tastes in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things - would not be pleased with views of other recluses and Brahmins.
Like a man overwhelmed with hunger. coming across a honey comb, in whichever way he tastes it, he becomes pleased in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement.
Like a man who has come across a sandle wood stick, whether white or red, in whatever manner he smells it, near the root in the middle or top it gives a heavenly bliss in like manner in whatever way good Gotama's Teaching is heard- in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement.
Like a man gravely ill, in great unpleasantness is attended by a clever physician. Who attends on him at the right moment and dismisses his ailment, in like manner in whatever way good Gotama's Teaching is heard- in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-in that and other manner his grief, lament, unpleantness displeasure and distress vanishes.
There is a pond with pure, good, cool and transparent water in a pleasant surrounding. A man overwhelmed by thirst and fantish on account of thirst comes to it Ascends it bathes, quenches his thirst and appeases all his tired limbs. in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement giving up all their troubles and worries.
When this was said the Brahmin Karanapali got up from his seat, arranged his shawl on one shoulder put his right knee on the ground, claspped his hands towartds the direction in which The Blessed One was, and made this solemn utterance three times.
I worship that Blessed One, worthy and rightfully enlightened!
Good Pingiya, now I understand. Good Pingiya has reinstated something that was over turned. Has made manifest something that was covered. Has told the way to someone who was lost. Has lighted an oil lamp for the darkness, so that forms could be seen in the darkness. Good Pingiya has explained the Teaching in various ways. Now I take refuge in good Gotama, in the Teaching and the Community of bhikkhus. I am a lay disciple who has taken refuge from today until life lasts.
Where, does good Pingiya go during the day time?
Here, I am returning from the presence of the recluse Gotama.
Good Pingiya, how is the wisdom of the recluse Gotama, do you think he is wise?
Who am I to know the extent of wisdom of the recluse Gotama? Someone like him should know the extent of wisdom of the recluse Gotama.
Good Pingiya praises the recluse Gotama very highly.
Among gods and men good Gotama deserves the highest praise
Why is good Pingiya so pleased in the recluse Gotama?
Like a man who has tasted the highest taste, would not be pleased with other lesser tastes in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things - would not be pleased with views of other recluses and Brahmins.
Like a man overwhelmed with hunger. coming across a honey comb, in whichever way he tastes it, he becomes pleased in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement.
Like a man who has come across a sandle wood stick, whether white or red, in whatever manner he smells it, near the root in the middle or top it gives a heavenly bliss in like manner in whatever way good Gotama's Teaching is heard- in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement.
Like a man gravely ill, in great unpleasantness is attended by a clever physician. Who attends on him at the right moment and dismisses his ailment, in like manner in whatever way good Gotama's Teaching is heard- in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-in that and other manner his grief, lament, unpleantness displeasure and distress vanishes.
There is a pond with pure, good, cool and transparent water in a pleasant surrounding. A man overwhelmed by thirst and fantish on account of thirst comes to it Ascends it bathes, quenches his thirst and appeases all his tired limbs. in like manner those who have heard good Gotama's Teaching - in discourses, in prose and verse sections, in explanation discourses or the wonderful things-gains a pleasure and gains an appeasement giving up all their troubles and worries.
When this was said the Brahmin Karanapali got up from his seat, arranged his shawl on one shoulder put his right knee on the ground, claspped his hands towartds the direction in which The Blessed One was, and made this solemn utterance three times.
I worship that Blessed One, worthy and rightfully enlightened!
Good Pingiya, now I understand. Good Pingiya has reinstated something that was over turned. Has made manifest something that was covered. Has told the way to someone who was lost. Has lighted an oil lamp for the darkness, so that forms could be seen in the darkness. Good Pingiya has explained the Teaching in various ways. Now I take refuge in good Gotama, in the Teaching and the Community of bhikkhus. I am a lay disciple who has taken refuge from today until life lasts.
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