La Vallée Poussin Musīla and Nārada. The Path - Gampo Abbey

Musıla and N›rada. The Path of Nirv›˚a: by Louis de La Vallée Poussin
56. “So then Susıma, you who know and see thus, do you experience the peaceful immaterial
releases with the body and abide?”
“Not so, venerable sir.”
57. “Susıma, that’s all. This is the explanation. This is the Teaching without attainments.
Susıma, of these what are you?”
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58. Then venerable Susıma put his head down at the feet of the Blessed One and said:
“Venerable sir, pardon me for my foolish, deluded demerit. In a so well declared dispensation
of the Teaching, I went forth to steal the doctrine. Venerable sir, accept my pardon for future
restraint.”
59. “Susıma, do you ask pardon for your foolish, deluded demerit. Haven’t you gone forth to
steal, in a well declared dispensation of the Teaching?
60. “Susıma, it’s like they have taken hold of a robber while offending and showing him to
the king asked: `Lord this is a robber caught while offending, mete the suitable punishment
you desire for him.’ Then the king tells them `Go bind this man’s hands tightly behind his
back, give a close shave to his head and with the sound of rough drums take him from street to
street and from junction to junction then go out of the city through the southern gate and slay
him cutting his neck’. Then those men bound this man’s hands tightly behind his back, gave a
close shave to his head and with the sound of rough drums took him from street to street and
from junction to junction then went out of the city through the southern gate and slayed him
cutting his neck.
61. “Susıma, would this man feel unpleasant on account of it?”
“Yes, venerable sir.”
62. “Susıma, whether that man feels unpleasant or does not feel unpleasant, why did you go
forth in this well declared dispensation of the Teaching for the purpose of stealing the Teaching?
It will come to you as sharp acute unpleasant feelings and as decrease.
63. “Susıma, since you ask for pardon seeing your fault according to the Teaching, we
accept pardon. It is growth in the discipline of the noble ones to ask for pardon seeing one’s own
fault. It is for future restraint.”