Basket of Conduct 25

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1. The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood
2. The Chapter With Yudhañjaya
3. The Perfection of Renunciation (5th)
4. Soṇa the Astute’s Conduct
5. “Then again when I was
6. in the city of Brahmavaḍḍhana,
7. I was reborn there
8. in a fine, wealthy, and eminent family.
9. Even so, I saw that the world
10. had become blind, smothered in darkness.
11. My mind recoiled from rebirth,
12. as if harshly pricked by a goad.
13. Seeing the many forms of wickedness,
14. I though to myself:
15. ‘When shall I leave the house
16. and enter the forest?’
17. Then too my relatives invited me
18. to enjoy the pleasures of the senses.
19. I told them of my desire, saying,
20. ‘Do not invite me to such things!’
21. My younger brother,
22. who was named Nanda the astute,
23. followed my ethical practices,
24. and chose to go forth.
25. I, Soṇa, and Nanda,
26. and both my mother and father,
27. then discarded our riches
28. entered the great forest.”