闍祇羅比丘證得阿羅漢果 Jatilatthera Vatthu ｜ 喬帝卡在天上的美麗屋舍 Jotikatthera Vatthu

 Dhammapada Verse 416*




Jatilatthera Vatthu

Yo'dha tanham pahantvana
anagaro paribbaje
tanhabhavaparikkhinam
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 416: Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up craving, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated craving and has come to the end of existence.

The Story of Thera Jatila

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (416*) of this book, with reference to Thera Jatila.

Soon after the passing away (Parinibbana) of Kassapa Buddha, an arahat thera went round for donations to build a gold stupa where the relics of Kassapa Buddha were to be enshrined. The thera came to the house of a goldsmith while he and his wife were engaged in a heated quarrel. The goldsmith shouted at the thera and said, "You had better thrown your stupa into the water and go away." His wife then said to the goldsmith, "If you are angry with me you should abuse me only; you can even beat me if you like; but why do you have to abuse the Buddha and the thera? Surely, you have done a grievous wrong!" Hearing her words, the goldsmith realized the enormity of the wrong he had done and wanted to make atonement for it. So, he made some gold flowers, put them into three gold pots and offered them to be put into the relic chamber of the stupa of Kassapa Buddha.

In his present existence he was conceived in the womb of a rich man's daughter who had had an illicit love affair. When the child was born, she put it into a pot and floated it down the stream. A young woman who was bathing in the stream saw the child in the pot and took it with her. She adopted him and named him Jatila. Later, on the advice of a thera the woman sent Jatila to Taxila where he had his education. While at Taxila the thera arranged for him to stay at the house of a merchant who was a disciple of his. In due course, Jatila married the daughter of the merchant. Soon after the marriage, a large mound of gold appeared in the backyard of the house which was newly built for the couple. Three sons were born out of this marriage. After that, Jatila joined the Order and attained arahatship within a few days.

On one occasion, as the Buddha went on an alms-round with five hundred bhikkhus including Jatila, they came to the house of the sons of Jatila. His sons offered alms-food to the Buddha and his disciples for fifteen days. Some time afterwards, the bhikkhus asked Jatila whether he was still attached to his mound of gold and his sons, and he answered that he had no more attachment to them. The bhikkhus then said to the Buddha that Jatila was falsely claiming to have attained arahatship. To them the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! Jatila has got rid of craving and pride; he has indeed attained arahatship."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 416: Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up craving, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated craving and has come to the end of existence.

* Verse 416 have two stories. Read the Story of Thera Jotika.


                                                                     Jotikatthera Vatthu


The Story of Thera Jotika

While residing at the Veluvana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (416*) of this book, with reference to Thera Jotika.

Jotika was a famous rich man from Rajagaha. He lived in a stately mansion with seven tiered pinnacles. There were seven walls around his mansion, each of which had an entrance guarded by celestial demons. The fame of his wealth spread far and wide, and many people came to see his mansion. On one occasion, King Bimbisara came to visit Jotika; he also brought his son Ajatasattu with him. Ajatasattu seeing the grandeur of Jotika's mansion vowed that he would not allow Jotika to live in such a magnificent mansion when he became king. On the king's departure from his house Jotika presented the king with a large priceless ruby. It was the custom of Jotika to give presents to all visitors who came to see him.

When Ajatasattu ascended the throne, after killing his father, he came with his soldiers to take the mansion of Jotika by force. But as all the gates were well guarded by celestial demons, Ajatasattu and his soldiers had to retreat. Ajatasattu fled to the Veluvana monastery and he found Jotika listening to a discourse given by the Buddha. Seeing Jotika at the feet of the Buddha, Ajatasattu exclaimed, "After making your guards fight me, you are now pretending to be listening to a discourse!" Jotika realized that the king had gone to take his place by force and that he had been compelled to retreat.

In a past existence, Jotika had made a solemn wish that his property might not be taken away from him against his wish, and this wish had been fulfilled. So Jotika said to King Ajatasattu, "O king! My property cannot be taken away against my wish." Saying this, he stretched out his ten fingers and asked the king to take off the twenty rings he was wearing on his fingers. The king tried hard to take them off but did not succeed. Jotika then asked the king to spread out a piece of cloth and as Jotika put his fingers on to the cloth, all his rings easily slipped off. After he had given all his rings to King Ajatasattu, Jotika asked the Buddha that he might be permitted into the Order. Soon after entering the Order, Jotika attained arahatship.

One day, when other bhikkhus asked him whether he had any more craving left in him for his mansion his wealth and his wife, he answered that he did not have any more craving for them. The bhikkhus then went to the Buddha and said, "Venerable Sir! Thera Jotika claims to have attained arahatship; he is telling lies." To them the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! Jotika speaks the truth; he does not have any more craving in him. He is now an arahat."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 416: Him I call a brahmana, who, in this world, has given up craving, and leaving the home-life has become a bhikkhu; who has eradicated craving and has come to the end of existence.

闍祇羅比丘證得阿羅漢果


世間人若棄絕愛欲，正信出家，滅除愛欲，不再輪迴，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈 416)


　　一位阿羅漢比丘在迦葉佛入滅後不久四處去募款，準備興建供奉迦葉佛遺物的浮圖塔。

　　有一天，他來到一戶金匠的門前，不巧，金匠與妻子正在激烈吵架，他就對著比丘大吼：「你最好丟掉迦葉佛的遺物，滾回去吧！」

　　他太太聽他這麼一說，卻說：「你如果生氣，就只辱罵我好了，喜歡的話，甚至可以毆打我。但你為什麼要辱罵迦葉佛和比丘呢？你這麼做，已經犯了大錯了！」金匠聽完妻子的話後，明白自己剛才犯下十分嚴重的錯誤。

　　為了補救他的錯誤，他製作了一些金飾的花，裝在金色的罐子，然後供養給迦葉佛的浮圖塔。

　　這一世，他出生為一位富家女私生子。出生時，她將他放在罐子裡，然後順水飄流而下，最後被一位在河中沐浴年輕女子看見，便加以收養，並命名為闍祇羅。

　　長大後，他的養母聽從一位比丘的建議，送他去怛剎尸羅受教育。這比丘並且安排闍祇羅住在他一位商人弟子的家。 後來，闍祇羅與商人的女兒結婚。婚後不久更在他們新屋的後院裡挖出大量的金子。他們總共生育了三個兒子。闍祇羅後來更出家為比丘，並且證得阿羅漢果。

　　有一天，佛陀和包括闍祇羅在內的眾多比丘到闍祇羅兒子的家去化緣，他的兒子們連續十五天供養佛陀和眾多比丘。過了一陣子，比丘們問闍祇羅是否仍執著他的金子和兒子？

　　他回答說已經毫無牽掛。這些比丘就向佛陀敘說闍祇羅所說的話，佛陀說：「比丘們！闍祇羅已經滌除貪愛和驕傲，他已經證得阿羅漢果。」


喬帝卡在天上的美麗屋舍


世間人若棄絕愛欲，正信出家，滅除愛欲，不再輪迴，我稱之婆羅門。(偈 416)


　　喬帝卡是王舍城中非常著名、非常有錢的人。他住在高廣華廈中，該大廈有七道牆，每道牆進出的門都有守護精靈保護著。他的財富之名傳播的很遠，很多人都來參觀他的華廈。有一次，頻婆裟羅王和阿闍世王子也來參觀他的華廈。阿闍世王子眼見他的華廈如此壯觀，發誓將來成為國王時，絕對不許喬帝卡住在這華廈中。國王離開華廈時，喬帝卡送給國王一顆無價之寶的大紅寶石。送禮物給前來參觀華廈的人是喬帝卡的習慣。

　　後來，阿闍世王殺死父王，篡位成功。當上國王後，他果真攜帶將士前去喬帝卡的華廈，準備用武力取得。但華廈所有的門都有精靈保護，阿闍世王和他的將士只好無功而退。當他前往竹林精舍時，郤發現喬帝卡正在聽佛陀說法，阿闍世王就大聲吼叫著：「你命令你的守護精靈和我的將士作戰，自己卻跑到這裡來，假裝聽佛陀說法！」喬帝卡聽阿闍世王這麼一說，才知道國王剛去過他的華廈，準備予以沒收。

　　過去生中，喬帝卡曾經發過誓願，希望他的財產不會被人強奪而去。此刻他的願望顯然已經實現了，他就告訴國王：「國王！任何人無法在違背我的意願下奪走我的財富。」說完這句話後，他伸出十指，請國王強行拿下他手指上的戒指。國王奮力想要拔出戒指，就是無法成功。喬帝卡於是要國王舖塊布，然後他把雙手放在布上，結果所有的戒指自動滑落下來，喬帝卡把它們獻給國王，他接著請求佛陀讓他加入僧伽。不久，他就證得阿羅漢果。

　　後來，有一天，比丘們問他是否仍然執著於他的華廈和財富？他回答說沒有。這些比丘就請教佛陀：

　　「世尊！喬帝卡宣稱已證得阿羅漢果，真的嗎？」

　　佛陀說：「比丘們！喬帝卡說是的是事實，他已經沒有任何貪愛了，他現在是一位阿羅漢。」



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Dhammapada

《法句經》

ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། །


26. Brāhmaṇavaggo

Chapter Twenty Six   The Holy Man

第二十六章 婆羅門

ཉེར་དྲུག་པ་བྲམ་ཟེའི་ལེའུ།


416. Yodha taṇhaṃ pahantvāna, 

anāgāro paribbaje;

Taṇhābhavaparikkhīṇaṃ , 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


416. He who, having abandoned craving, has renounced the household life and become a homeless one, has destroyed both craving and continued existence — him do I call a holy man.


416.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些今世己放棄渴愛、出家為比丘、根除渴愛、 已到達最後一生的人。


416.我所称的婆罗门，是那些今世己放弃渴爱、出家为比丘、根除渴爱、 已到达最后一生的人。


༤༡༦༽ གང་ཞིག་སྲེད་པ་ཡོངས་སྤངས་ནས། །ཁྱིམ་ནས་ཁྱིམ་མེད་རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་། །སྲེད་དང་སྲིད་པའི་རྒྱུན་བཅོམ་པ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། །


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您可以選擇您的語言：巴利語、英語、廣東話、普通話、藏語

ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་པཱ་ལཱའི་སྐད་དམ་དབྱིན་སྐད་དམ་ཧོང་ཀོང་གི་སྐད་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དང་བོད་སྐད་ལྔ་པོ་དེ་ལ་གང་རུང་འདམ་ཆོག


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此是免費贈送的法寶。

འབུལ་བ་འདི་རིན་མེད་ཡིན། 


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