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The Discourse on Reviling
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On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels' Feeding Ground.
The brahmin Akkosaka Bhāradvāja heard -
"A brahmin of the Bhāradvāja clan, it seems, has gone forth from home into homelessness in the presence of the ascetic Gotama" - angry and displeased, he approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he reviles and abuses the Blessed One with vulgar and harsh speech.
When this was said, the Blessed One said this to the brahmin Akkosaka Bhāradvāja - "What do you think, brahmin, do friends and colleagues, relatives and blood-relations, guests come to you?" "Sometimes, Master Gotama, friends and colleagues, relatives and blood-relations, guests come to me." "What do you think, brahmin, do you offer them solid food or soft food or delicacies?" "Sometimes I offer them, Master Gotama, solid food or soft food or delicacies." "But if, brahmin, they do not accept it, to whom does it belong?" "If they, Master Gotama, do not accept it, it belongs to us only." "So too, brahmin, that by which you revile us who do not revile, irritate us who do not irritate, quarrel with us who do not quarrel, that we do not accept from you. It belongs to you only, brahmin; it belongs to you only, brahmin."
"Whoever, brahmin, reviles back one who reviles, irritates back one who irritates, quarrels back with one who quarrels, this is called, brahmin, eating together, exchanging. We neither eat together with you nor exchange with you. It belongs to you only, brahmin; it belongs to you only, brahmin." "The assembly including the king knows Master Gotama thus - 'The ascetic Gotama is a Worthy One.' And yet Master Gotama becomes angry."
To one completely liberated through final knowledge, to one at peace, to such a one.
Not becoming angry in return at one who is angry, one wins a battle hard to win.
Knowing the other to be enraged, one who is mindful becomes calm.
People think 'he is a fool' - those who are unskilled in the Teaching."
When this was said, the brahmin Akkosakabhāradvāja said this to the Blessed One - "Excellent, Master Gotama! Etc. I go for refuge to Master Gotama, to the Teaching, and to the Community of monks. May I, venerable sir, receive the going forth under Master Gotama, may I receive the full ordination."
The brahmin Akkosakabhāradvāja received the going forth under the Blessed One, he received the full ordination. And not long after being fully ordained, dwelling alone, withdrawn, diligent, ardent, and resolute, the Venerable Akkosakabhāradvāja soon realised for himself, with direct knowledge, in this very life, that unsurpassed consummation of the holy life for the sake of which sons of good family rightly go forth from home into homelessness; and, having entered upon it, he dwelt in it. He directly knew: "Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being." And the Venerable Bhāradvāja became one of the Worthy Ones.