Aṅguttara Nikāya
4. Catukka Nipāta
III. Uruvelā Vagga
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha
IV. The Book of the Fours
III. Uruvelā
Sutta 25
Brahmacariya Suttaɱ
The Spiritual Life
Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
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[1][pts] "Bhikkhus, this spiritual life is not lived for the sake of deceiving people and cajoling them; nor for the benefit of gain, honor, and praise; nor for the benefit of winning in debates; nor with the thought:
'Let the people know me thus.'
But rather, this spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint, abandoning, dispassion, and cessation."
The Blessed One taught the spiritual life,
not based on tradition, culminating in Nibbāna,
lived for the sake of
restraint and abandoning.
This is the path of the great ones,
followed by the great seers.
Those who practice it
as taught by the Buddha,
acting upon the Teacher's guidance,
will make an end of suffering.
