[21] With the divine ear element (dibbā sotadhātu), purified and surpassing the human, the Blessed One heard this conversation between the householder Sandhāna and the wanderer Nigrodha. Then the Blessed One, having descended from Mount Gijjhakūṭa, approached the peacocks' feeding ground on the bank of the Sumāgadhā; and having approached, he walked in meditation in the open air at the peacocks' feeding ground on the bank of the Sumāgadhā.
The wanderer Nigrodha saw the Blessed One walking in meditation in the open air at the peacocks' feeding ground on the bank of the Sumāgadhā. Having seen him, he hushed his own assembly: "Let the honorable ones be quiet; do not make a sound, honorable ones. This ascetic Gotama is walking in meditation in the open air at the peacocks' feeding ground on the bank of the Sumāgadhā. That venerable one is fond of quiet and speaks in praise of quiet. Perhaps, if he perceives that this assembly is quiet, he may see fit to approach. If the ascetic Gotama should come to this assembly, we would ask him this question: 'What, venerable sir, is that Dhamma of the Blessed One by which the Blessed One trains his disciples, and by which the disciples trained by the Blessed One, having attained solace, acknowledge the fundamental spiritual life as their inmost aim (ajjhāsaya)?'"
When this was said, those wanderers fell silent.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.