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Verse 298 for 25 October, 2026
298. Kassapa said to the Lord: "Reverend Gotama, it is hard to be a true recluse; it is hard to be a true Brahmin." "That is what the world says. But if a naked recluse were to practise all kinds of self-torture, and this was the measure of difficulty, then it would not be true to say: `It is hard to be a true recluse; it is hard to be a true Brahmin.' Because anyone, a householder, his son, even a slave girl who draws water could go naked or practise self-torture. But there is another type of asceticism because of which it is true to say: `It is hard to be a true recluse; it is hard to be a true Brahmin.' When a monk develops a mind without hatred or ill-will, full of love, and by the destruction of the defilements dwells with a mind freed through insight, then that monk is a true recluse, a true Brahmin."
Digha Nikaya I.168 ::