Men and Thought in Ancient India by Radhakumud Mookerji

Author:Radhakumud Mookerji
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Asia Books

Indeed the Buddha did not take any advantage of the goodness of his hosts, or abuse their hospitality in any way. He was very particular and scrupulous to ensure that no person giving him an opportunity for discourse after dinner changed his own faith and sect in a hurry under his temporary influence. Thus he asked Uruvela Kassapa, the leader of Jatila followers, "to go first and inform them of his intentions" to desert them and join the Buddhist Order, and was careful to withdraw his presence from Kassapa, lest, it should affect his reputation which drew to him "all the people of Anga and Magadha" with presents of "abundant food, both hard and soft" [M. V. i. 18, 20]. In accepting the Commandant Siha as his disciple, he strongly exhorted him not to withdraw his support from his quondam co-religionists, lest they should be left helpless [M. V. vi. 31, 11]. Indeed it is stated that in preaching he showed more zeal for his own monks, then for lay-believers, and then the Brahmans. ascetics, and followers of other sects, "like the landowner sowing the good field, the middling field, and last the bad one" [Sam. N. xlii. 7].

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