{"id":"an4.66","title":"Greedy","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.66","title":"Greedy","units":[{"id":"an4.66:0","sourceIds":["an4.66:0.1","an4.66:0.2","an4.66:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.66\n7. Pattakammavagga\nSarāgasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.66\n7. Fitting Deeds\nGreedy"}},{"id":"an4.66:1","sourceIds":["an4.66:1.1","an4.66:1.2","an4.66:1.3","an4.66:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ.\nKatame cattāro?\nSarāgo, sadoso, samoho, samāno—\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasminti.","en":"“Mendicants, these four individuals are found in the world.\nWhat four?\nThe greedy, the hateful, the delusional, and the conceited.\nThese are the four individuals found in the world."}},{"id":"an4.66:2","sourceIds":["an4.66:2.1","an4.66:2.2","an4.66:2.3","an4.66:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sārattā rajanīyesu,\nPiyarūpābhinandino;\nMohena āvutā sattā,\nBaddhā vaḍḍhenti bandhanaṁ.","en":"Full of desire for desirable things,\nenjoying things that seem pleasant,\nbeings veiled by delusion\nonly tighten their bonds."}},{"id":"an4.66:3","sourceIds":["an4.66:3.1","an4.66:3.2","an4.66:3.3","an4.66:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Rāgajaṁ dosajañcāpi,\nmohajaṁ cāpaviddasū;\nKarontākusalaṁ kammaṁ,\nsavighātaṁ dukhudrayaṁ.","en":"Born of greed, born of hate,\nborn of delusion: the ignorant\ndo unskillful deeds\nthat afflict and produce pain."}},{"id":"an4.66:4","sourceIds":["an4.66:4.1","an4.66:4.2","an4.66:4.3","an4.66:4.4","an4.66:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Avijjānivutā posā,\nandhabhūtā acakkhukā;\nYathā dhammā tathā santā,\nna tassevanti maññare”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"If you act out of these qualities, that’s what you become.\nBut men shrouded by ignorance,\nare blind, with no eyes to see,\nand they never imagine that this could be so.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.66/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}