2.
The Discourse to Udaya
198.
At Sāvatthī.
Then the Blessed One, having dressed in the earlier period of the day, taking his bowl and robe, approached the dwelling of the brahmin Udaya.
Then the brahmin Udaya filled the Blessed One's bowl with cooked rice.
For the second time the Blessed One, having dressed in the earlier period of the day, taking his bowl and robe, approached the dwelling of the brahmin Udaya, etc.
For the third time the brahmin Udaya, having filled the Blessed One's bowl with cooked rice, said this to the Blessed One:
"This greedy ascetic Gotama keeps coming again and again."
Again and again farmers plough the field, again and again grain comes to the country.
Again and again donors, having given, again and again go to the heavenly state.
Again and again one is wearied and trembles, again and again the fool enters the womb.
But having obtained the path to non-rebirth, the one of extensive wisdom is not born again and again."
When this was said, the brahmin Udaya said this to the Blessed One: "Excellent, Master Gotama! Etc. May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forth for life."