Connected Discourses 7.5

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1. Linked Discourses 7.5
2. 1. The Perfected Ones
3. Harmless
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. Then the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Harmless went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him.
6. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said,
7. “I am Harmless, worthy Gotama, I am Harmless!”
8. “If you were really like your name,
9. then you’d be Harmless.
10. But a truly harmless person
11. does no harm by way of
12. body, speech, or mind;
13. they don’t harm anyone else.”
14. When he had spoken, the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Harmless said to the Buddha,
15. “Excellent, worthy Gotama! …” …
16. And Venerable Bhāradvāja the Harmless became one of the perfected.