Linked Discourses 6.8

1. The Appeal

About Katamorakatissaka

At Sāvatthī.

Now at that time the Buddha had gone into retreat for the day’s meditation.

Then the independent divinities Subrahmā and Suddhāvāsa went to the Buddha and stationed themselves one by each door-post.

Then Suddhāvāsa spoke this verse about the mendicant Katamorakatissaka in the Buddha’s presence:

“What wise person here would judge

the immeasurable by measuring them?

I think anyone who’d do such a thing

is an ignoramus, shrouded in darkness.”