Siṅghapuppha Jātaka
JātakaAlso known as Bhisapuppha Jātaka
Un jātaka raconte comment une déesse réprimande un ascète pour avoir senti une fleur de lotus qui ne lui appartenait pas, sans rien dire à un homme voisin qui déracine les plants, expliquant que la moindre faute paraît d’un noir éclatant face à la pureté à laquelle l’ascète aspire ; enseigné au sujet d’un moine pareillement réprimandé par une divinité forestière pour avoir senti un lotus.
v.l. Bhisapuppha Jātaka.– The Bodhisatta was born once as an ascetic, and one day a goddess, having seen him smell a lotus in bloom, upbraided him, telling him he was a thief to smell a lotus which did not belong to him. Nearby was a man digging up lotus plants for their fibres, but to him the goddess said nothing. When questioned, her answer was that in a man like the Bodhisatta, seeking for purity, a sin even as large as a hair tip showed like a dark, cloud in the sky. The Bodhisatta, greatly impressed, thanked her.
The goddess is identified with Uppalavaṇṇā.
The story was told in reference to a monk who was upbraided by a deity in a forest tract in Kosala for smelling a lotus. In great agitation, he went and consulted the Buddha, who told him the above story. J.iv.307 ff.
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