Saṁyutta Nikāya — Discursos Conectados — 9.3 — With Kassapagotta

1At one time Venerable Kassapagotta was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.

2Now at that time Venerable Kassapagotta, having withdrawn for his day’s meditation, tried to advise a nimrod. Then the deity haunting that forest approached Kassapagotta wanting to stir him up, and recited these verses:

3“A nimrod wandering the rugged hills
is unintelligent, unthinking.
It’s a waste of time to advise him, mendicant;
he strikes me as a dullard.

4He listens without understanding,
looks without seeing.
Though the teaching is spoken,
the fool doesn’t get it.

5Even if you lit ten lamps
and brought them to him, Kassapa,
he wouldn’t see anything,
for he has no eyes to see.”

6Impelled by that deity, Venerable Kassapagotta was struck with a sense of urgency.