Connected Discourses 8.3

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1. Linked Discourses 8.3
2. 1. With Vaṅgīsa
3. Good-Hearted
4. At one time Venerable Vaṅgīsa was staying near Āḷavī, at the Aggāḷava Tree-shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa.
5. Now at that time Venerable Vaṅgīsa looked down upon other good-hearted mendicants because of his own poetic virtuosity.
6. Then he thought,
7. “It’s my loss, my misfortune,
8. that I look down on other good-hearted mendicants because of my own poetic virtuosity.”
9. Then, on the occasion of arousing remorse in himself, he recited these verses:
10. “Give up conceit, Gotama!
11. Completely abandon the different kinds of conceit!
12. Besotted with the different kinds of conceit,
13. you’ve had regrets for a long time.
14. Smeared by smears and slain by conceit,
15. people fall into hell.
16. When people slain by conceit are reborn in hell,
17. they grieve for a long time.
18. But a mendicant who practices rightly,
19. winner of the path, never grieves.
20. They enjoy happiness and a good reputation,
21. and they rightly call him a ‘Seer of Truth’.
22. So don’t be hard-hearted, be energetic,
23. with hindrances given up, be pure.
24. Then with conceit given up completely,
25. use knowledge to make an end, and be calmed.”