GOING ON ALMS ROUND - သပဒါနစာရီ

GOING ON ALMS ROUND Sapadᾱnacᾱrῑ

သပဒါနစာရီ - အိမ္စဥ္ရပ္၍ ဆြမ္းခံျခင္း။

ဘုရားရွင္ အဆူဆူတုိ႔သည္ အိမ္စဥ္အတုိင္းရပ္၍ ဆြမ္းခံရေသာ က်င့္၀တ္ကုိ အေလးအျမတ္ထား၍ ျပဳၾကသည္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရား၏ တပည့္သား ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားလည္း ထုိအိမ္စဥ္ရပ္၍ ဆြမ္းခံျခင္းကုိ က်င့္၀တ္တစ္ခုအေနျဖင့္ ျဖည့္က်င့္ၾကသည္။ အလႉရွင္မ်ား အက်ဳိးစီးပြား ျဖစ္ထြန္းရန္အတြက္သာ အိမ္စဥ္ရပ္၍ ဆြမ္းခံျခင္းအမႈကုိ ျပဳၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္၊ အိမ္စဥ္ေလွ်ာက္၍ ေတာင္းရမ္းစားေသာက္ၾကျခင္းမဟုတ္။ “ဆြမ္းကုိ ရည္မွတ္၍ အိမ္စဥ္ရပ္ျခင္း၌ မေမ႔ရ၊ ေကာင္းစြာက်င့္အပ္ေသာ ဆြမ္းခံျခင္း အက်င့္ျမတ္ကုိ က်င့္ရာ၏” ဟု - ေဟာေတာ္မူသည္။

Stopping at every house along the daily round of gathering alms-food.

It was the cherished practice of all successive Buddhas to stop at each house to receive offerings of alms-food. This practice is followed as a duty by the bhikkhu disciples. This they do merely for the benefit of the donors and should not be construed as going a-begging for food from house to house. The Buddha enjoined the bhikkhus: “Be not negligent to go round from house to house for collecting alms-food. Take up the good practice without fail.”