dn2:37.0 4.2. The Second Fruit of the Ascetic Life
BAGIAN 37
dn2:37.1 “But sir, can you point out another fruit of the ascetic life that’s likewise apparent in this very life?”
dn2:37.2 “I can, Great King.
dn2:37.3 Well then, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like.
dn2:37.4 What do you think, Great King?
dn2:37.5 Suppose you had a person who was a farmer, a householder, a hard worker, someone who builds up their capital.
dn2:37.6 They’d think:
dn2:37.7 ‘The outcome and result of good deeds is just so incredible, so amazing!
dn2:37.8 For this King Ajātasattu is a human being, and so am I.
dn2:37.9 Yet he amuses himself, supplied and provided with the five kinds of sensual stimulation as if he were a god.
dn2:37.10 Whereas I’m a farmer, a householder, a hard worker, someone who builds up their capital.
dn2:37.11 I really should do good deeds.
dn2:37.12 Why don’t I shave off my hair and beard, dress in ocher robes, and go forth from the lay life to homelessness?’
dn2:37.13 After some time they give up a large or small fortune, and a large or small family circle. They’d shave off hair and beard, dress in ocher robes, and go forth from the lay life to homelessness.
dn2:37.14 Having gone forth they’d live restrained in body, speech, and mind, living content with nothing more than food and clothes, delighting in seclusion.
dn2:37.15 And suppose your men were to report all this to you.
dn2:37.19 Would you say to them:
dn2:37.20 ‘Bring that person to me! Let them once more be a farmer, a householder, a hard worker, someone who builds up their capital’?”