mn63:5.1 Suppose someone were to say this:
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mn63:5.2 ‘I will not lead the spiritual life under the Buddha until the Buddha declares to me
mn63:5.3 that the cosmos is eternal, or that the cosmos is not eternal …
mn63:5.4 or that after death a realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists.’
mn63:5.5 That would still remain undeclared by the Realized One, and meanwhile that individual would die.
mn63:5.6 Suppose a man was struck by an arrow thickly smeared with poison.
mn63:5.7 His friends and colleagues, relatives and kin would get a surgeon to treat him.
mn63:5.8 But the man would say:
mn63:5.9 ‘I won’t extract this arrow as long as I don’t know whether the man who wounded me was an aristocrat, a brahmin, a peasant, or a menial.’
mn63:5.10 He’d say:
mn63:5.11 ‘I won’t extract this arrow as long as I don’t know the following things about the man who wounded me: his name and clan;
mn63:5.13 whether he’s tall, short, or medium;
mn63:5.15 whether his skin is black, brown, or dingy;
mn63:5.17 and whether he comes from such-and-such village, town, or city.
mn63:5.19 I won’t extract this arrow as long as I don’t know whether the bow that wounded me was straight or recurved;
mn63:5.21 whether the bow-string is made of swallow-wort fibre, sunn hemp fibre, sinew, sanseveria fibre, or spurge fibre;
mn63:5.23 whether the shaft is made from a bush or a plantation tree;
mn63:5.25 whether the shaft was fitted with feathers from a vulture, a heron, a hawk, a peacock, or a stork;
mn63:5.27 whether the shaft was bound with sinews of a cow, a buffalo, a black lion, or an ape;
mn63:5.29 and whether the arrowhead was spiked, razor-tipped, barbed, made of iron or a calf’s tooth, or lancet-shaped.’
mn63:5.30 That man would still not have learned these things, and meanwhile they’d die.
mn63:5.31 In the same way, suppose someone was to say:
mn63:5.32 ‘I will not lead the spiritual life under the Buddha until the Buddha declares to me
mn63:5.33 that the cosmos is eternal, or that the cosmos is not eternal …
mn63:5.34 or that after death a realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists.’
mn63:5.35 That would still remain undeclared by the Realized One, and meanwhile that individual would die.