MN 49:26.1–26.10

Handa carahi te, mārisa, passa antaradhāyāmī’ti. ‘Handa carahi me tvaṁ, brahme, antaradhāyassu, sace visahasī’ti. Atha kho, bhikkhave, bako brahmā: ‘antaradhāyissāmi samaṇassa gotamassa, antaradhāyissāmi samaṇassa gotamassā’ti nevassu me sakkoti antaradhāyituṁ. Evaṁ vutte, ahaṁ, bhikkhave, bakaṁ brahmānaṁ etadavocaṁ: ‘handa carahi te brahme antaradhāyāmī’ti. ‘Handa carahi me tvaṁ, mārisa, antaradhāyassu sace visahasī’ti. Atha kho ahaṁ, bhikkhave, tathārūpaṁ iddhābhisaṅkhāraṁ abhisaṅkhāsiṁ: ‘ettāvatā brahmā ca brahmaparisā ca brahmapārisajjā ca saddañca me sossanti, na ca maṁ dakkhantī’ti. Antarahito imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsiṁ:

Come then, good fellow, see me vanish from you!’ ‘Come on then, Divinity, vanish from me—if you can.’ Then Baka the Divinity said, ‘I will vanish from the ascetic Gotama! I will vanish from the ascetic Gotama!’ But he was unable to vanish from me. So I said to him, ‘Come then, Divinity, see me vanish from you!’ ‘Come on then, good fellow, vanish from me—if you can.’ Then I used my psychic power to will that my voice would extend so that divinity, his assembly, and his retinue would hear me, but they would not see me. And while vanished I spoke this verse: