sn35.127:5.1 “It’s incredible, worthy Bhāradvāja, it’s amazing!
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sn35.127:5.2 How well this was said by the Buddha!
sn35.127:5.3 This is the real cause, this is the reason why these young monks practice the full and pure spiritual life as long as they live, maintaining it for a long time.
sn35.127:5.4 For sometimes I too enter the harem with unprotected body, speech, mind, mindfulness, and sense faculties. At those times powerful thoughts of desire get the better of me.
sn35.127:5.5 But sometimes I enter the harem with protected body, speech, mind, mindfulness, and sense faculties. At those times such thoughts of desire don’t get the better of me.
sn35.127:5.6 Excellent, worthy Bhāradvāja! Excellent!
sn35.127:5.7 As if he were righting the overturned, or revealing the hidden, or pointing out the path to the lost, or lighting a lamp in the dark so people with clear eyes can see what’s there, the worthy Bhāradvāja has made the teaching clear in many ways.
sn35.127:5.8 I go for refuge to the Buddha, to the teaching, and to the mendicant Saṅgha.
sn35.127:5.9 From this day forth, may the worthy Bhāradvāja remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”