Linked Discourses 2.25

3. Various Sectarians

With Jantu

So I have heard.
At one time several mendicants were staying in the Kosalan lands, in a wilderness hut on the slopes of the Himalayas. They were restless, insolent, fickle, scurrilous, loose-tongued, unmindful, lacking situational awareness and immersion, with straying minds and undisciplined faculties.

Then on the fifteenth day sabbath the godling Jantu went up to those mendicants and addressed them in verse:
 “The mendicants used to live happily,
 as disciples of Gotama.
 Desireless they sought alms;
 desireless they used their lodgings.
 Knowing that the world was impermanent
 they made an end of suffering.
 But now they’ve made themselves hard to look after,
 like chiefs in a village.
 They eat and eat and then lie down,
 passed out in the homes of others.
 Having raised my joined palms to the Saṅgha,
 I speak here only about certain people.
 They’re rejects, with no protector,
 just like those who have passed away.
 I’m speaking about
 those who live negligently.
 To those who live diligently
 I pay homage.”