Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/19/2019
The brahmin Suddhika makes the strikingly Buddhist assertion that mere austerities don’t lead to purity; only knowledge and conduct do. At Sāvatthī. Then the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Pure went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side, and recited this verse in his presence: “No brahmin in the world is ever purified even though he’s ethical and mortifies himself.
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