Buddha’s Timeless Wisdom with Angel: Find Peace in a Chaotic World | Sutta Nipata 1.9
Collections of Buddha Discourse 1.9 with Hemavata
At one time, in old India, there are two native angels. One is called Satagira and the other is Hemavata.
Satagira, the native angel of mount Sata said this:
“Today is the fifteenth day sabbath,”
“a holy night is at hand.
Come now, let us see Gotama,
the Teacher of peerless name.”
Hemavata, the native angel of the Himalayas asked:
“Isn’t his mind properly-directed
“impartial toward all creatures?
And aren’t his thoughts under control
when it comes to likes and dislikes?”
Satagira said:
“His mind is properly-directed,”
“impartial towards all creatures.
His thoughts are under control
when it comes to his likes and dislikes.”
Hemavata asked:
“Doesn’t he not steal?”
“And doesn’t he harm not a creature?
Isn’t he far from negligence?
And doesn’t he not neglect meditative mind, jhana?”
Satagira said:
“He does not take what is not given,”
“and he harms not a creature.
He is far from negligence—
the Buddha does not neglect meditative mind, jhana.”
Hemavata asked:
“Doesn’t he avoid lying?”
“And doesn’t he not speak sharply?
Doesn’t he avoid divisive speech,
as well as speaking nonsense?”
Satagira said:
“He does not lie,”
“nor does he speak sharply.
He avoids divisive speech,
and thoughtfully speaks wise guidance.”
Hemavata asked:
“And isn’t his mind unclouded?
Hasn’t he escaped delusion?
Does his eye see clearly in all things?”
Satagira replied:
“He does not find senses delights attractive,”
“and his mind is unclouded.
He has escaped all delusion—
the Buddha, whose eye sees clearly in all things.”
Hemavata asked:
“And doesn’t he live a pure life?
Aren’t his defilements all ended?
Doesn’t he have no future lives?”
Satagira replied:
“He is accomplished in knowledge,”
“and he does live a pure life.
His defilements are all ended,
there’ll be no more future lives for him.”
“Accomplished is the sage’s mind
in action and in speech,
and he’s accomplished in knowledge and conduct
as per the teaching you praise.”
“Accomplished is the sage’s mind
in action and in speech,
and he’s accomplished in knowledge and conduct
as per the teaching you rejoice in.
Accomplished is the sage’s mind
in action and in speech,
and he’s accomplished in knowledge and conduct:
come now, let us see Gotama.”
“The hero so lean, with antelope calves,
not greedy, eating little,
the sage meditating alone in the forest,
come now, let us see Gotama.
A giant, wandering alone like a lion,
unconcerned for senses delights,
let’s approach him and ask about
release from the snare of death.”
“The communicator, the instructor,
who has gone beyond all things,
Awakened, beyond enmity and fear,
let us ask Gotama.”
Then, the two angels met Buddha.
The angel Hemavata asked:
“What has the world arisen in?”
What does it get close to?
By grasping what
is the world troubled in what?”
Buddha replied to Hemavata:
“The world’s arisen in six,”
“It gets close to six.
By grasping at these six,
the world’s troubled in six.”
Hemavata asked:
“What is that grasping
by which the world is troubled?
Tell us the exit when asked:
how is one released from all suffering?”
Buddha replied:
“The world has five kinds of senses delights,
and the mind is said to be the sixth.
When you’ve discarded desire for these,
you’re released from all suffering.
This is the exit from the world,
explained in accord with the truth.
The way I’ve explained it is how
you’re released from all suffering.”
Hemavata then asked:
“Who here crosses the flood,
Who crosses the deluge?
Who, not standing and unsupported,
does not sink in the deep?”
Buddha replied:
“Someone who is always endowed with ethics,
wise and serene,
inwardly reflective, mindful,
crosses the flood so hard to cross.
Someone who desists from senses delights,
who has escaped all fetters,
and has ended relish for rebirth,
does not sink in the deep.”
Hemavata said:
“Behold him of wisdom deep
who sees the subtle meaning,
who has nothing, unattached to senses life,
everywhere free,
the great seer treading the holy road.
Behold him of peerless name
who sees the subtle meaning,
giver of wisdom,
unattached to the realm of senses:
see him, the all-knower, so very intelligent,
the great seer treading the noble road.”
The angel Hemavata continued:
“It was a fine sight for us today,
a good dawn, a good rising,
to see the Awakened One,
the undefiled one who has crossed the flood.
These thousand native angels
powerful and glorious,
all go to you for refuge,
you are our supreme Teacher.
We shall journey
village to village, peak to peak,
paying homage to the Buddha,
and the natural excellence of the teaching!”
End of the discourse.
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