dn19:56.0 6.6. Informing the Brahmins
BAGIAN 56
dn19:56.1 Then the Great Steward also went to the seven well-to-do brahmins and seven hundred bathed initiates and said,
dn19:56.2 “Good fellows, please now find another tutor to teach you to recite the hymns.
dn19:56.3 I wish to go forth from the lay life to homelessness.
dn19:56.4 As I understand what the Divinity says about putrefaction, it’s not easy to quell while living at home.
dn19:56.5 I shall go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”
dn19:56.6 “Please don’t go forth from the lay life to homelessness!
dn19:56.7 The life of one gone forth is of little influence or profit,
dn19:56.8 whereas the life of a brahmin is of great influence and profit.”
dn19:56.9 “Please, good fellows, don’t say that.
dn19:56.10 Who has greater influence and profit than myself?
dn19:56.11 For now I am like a king to kings, like the Divinity to brahmins, like a deity to householders.
dn19:56.12 Giving up all that, I shall go forth.
dn19:56.13 As I understand what the Divinity says about putrefaction, it’s not easy to quell while living at home.
dn19:56.14 I shall go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”
dn19:56.15 “If the Steward is going forth from the lay life to homelessness, we shall do so too. Your destiny shall be ours.”