1:4 To Kasi Bhṅradvṅja

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('â', I, too, brahman, plow & sow. Having plowed & sown, I eat.â" Then Kasi Bhṅradvṅja addressed the Blessed One with a verse: You claim to be a plowman, but we donât see your plowing. Being asked, tell us about your plowing so that we may know your plowing. The Buddha: Convictionâs     my seed, austerity     my rain, discernment     my yoke & plow, shame     my pole, mind     my yoke-tie, mindfulness     my plowshare & goad. Guarded in body, guarded in speech, restrained in terms of belly & food, I make truth a weeding-hook, and composure my unyoking. Persistence, my beast of burden, bearing me toward rest from the yoke, takes me, without turning back, to where, having gone, one doesnât grieve. Thatâs how my plowing is plowed. It has as its fruit the deathless. Having plowed this plowing, one is unyoked from all suffering & stress. Then Kasi Bhṅradvṅja, having heaped up milk-rice in a large bronze serving bowl, offered it to the Blessed One, [saying,] "May Master Gotama eat [this] milk-rice. The master is a plowman, for the Master Gotama plows the plowing that has as its fruit the deathless." The Buddha: Whatâs been chanted over with verses shouldnât be eaten by me. Thatâs not the nature, brahman, of one whoâs seen rightly. Whatâs been chanted over with verses Awakened Ones reject. That being their Dhamma, brahman, this is their way of life. Serve with other food & drink a fully-perfected great seer, his effluents     ended, his anxiety     stilled, for that is the field for one looking for merit. "Then to whom, Master Gotama, should I give this milk-rice?" "Brahman, I donât see that person in this world—with its devas, Mṅras, & Brahmṅs, in this generation with its contemplatives & brahmans, its royalty & commonfolk—by whom this milk-rice, having been eaten, would be rightly digested, aside from a Tathṅgata or a Tathṅgataâs disciple. In that case, brahman, throw the milk-rice away in a place without vegetation, or dump it in water with no living beings." So Kasi Bhṅradvṅja dumped the milk-rice in water with no living beings. And the milk-rice, when dropped in the water, hissed & sizzled, seethed & steamed. Just as an iron ball heated all day, when tossed in the water, hisses & sizzles, seethes & steams, in the same way the milk-rice, when dropped in the water, hissed & sizzled, seethed & steamed. Then Kasi Bhṅradvṅja—in awe, his hair standing on end—went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, throwing himself down with his head at the Blessed Oneâs feet, said to him, "Magnificent, Master Gotama! Magnificent! Just as if he were to place upright what was overturned, to reveal what was hidden, to show the way to one who was lost, or to carry a lamp into the dark so that those with eyes could see forms, in the same way has Master Gotama—through many lines of reasoning—made the Dhamma clear. I go to Master Gotama for refuge, to the Dhamma, & to the Saṃgha of monks. May Master Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge from this day forward, for life. Let me obtain the Going-forth in Master Gotamaâs presence, let me obtain Acceptance (into the Bhikkhu Saṃgha)." Then the brahman Kasi Bhṅradvṅja obtained the Going-forth in the Blessed Oneâs presence, he obtained Acceptance. And not long after his Acceptance—dwelling alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute—he in no long time reached & remained in the supreme goal of the holy life, for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for himself in the here-&-now. He knew: "Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for the sake of this world." And so Ven. Bhṅradvṅja became another one of the arahants. vv. 76–82 See also: DN 16; SN 7:14; SN 7:17; AN 4:113; Thig 13:2 - --> - - - -