SNP5.6 — The Questions of the Young Brahmin Dhotaka

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I ask you, Blessed One, tell me this,

(said the venerable Dhotaka),

I long for your word, great seer.

Having heard your utterance,

I will train for my own extinguishment.

Then be ardent,

(said the Blessed One, Dhotaka),

right here, alert and mindful.

Having heard the utterance from here,

you should train for your own extinguishment.

I see in the world of gods and humans,

a brahmin wandering, possessing nothing.

I bow down to you, the all-seeing one;

free me, Sakyan, from my doubts.

I cannot free anyone

in the world who is full of doubt, Dhotaka.

But by fully understanding the foremost Dhamma,

you will cross over this flood.

Instruct me, Holy One, out of compassion,

in the Dhamma of seclusion, so that I may know it.

So that, untroubled like space,

I may wander right here at peace and independent.

I will explain peace to you,

(said the Blessed One, Dhotaka),

in this very life, not based on hearsay;

knowing which, wandering mindfully,

one may cross over entanglement in the world.

And I rejoice in that,

great seer, the supreme peace;

knowing which, wandering mindfully,

one may cross over entanglement in the world.

Whatever you clearly comprehend,

(said the Blessed One, Dhotaka),

above, below, across, and in the middle;

knowing this to be a bond in the world,

do not create craving for becoming this or that.

The Questions of the Young Brahmin Dhotaka, the fifth.

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