{"id":"an8.57","title":"Worthy of Offerings Dedicated to the Gods (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.57","title":"Worthy of Offerings Dedicated to the Gods (1st)","units":[{"id":"an8.57:0","sourceIds":["an8.57:0.1","an8.57:0.2","an8.57:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.57\n6. Gotamīvagga\nPaṭhamaāhuneyyasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.57\n6. Gotamī\nWorthy of Offerings Dedicated to the Gods (1st)"}},{"id":"an8.57:1","sourceIds":["an8.57:1.1","an8.57:1.2","an8.57:1.3","an8.57:1.4","an8.57:1.5","an8.57:1.6","an8.57:1.7","an8.57:1.8","an8.57:1.9","an8.57:1.10","an8.57:1.11","an8.57:1.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aṭṭhahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu āhuneyyo hoti pāhuneyyo dakkhiṇeyyo añjalikaraṇīyo anuttaraṁ puññakkhettaṁ lokassa.\nKatamehi aṭṭhahi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti …pe… samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu;\nbahussuto hoti …pe… diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhā;\nkalyāṇamitto hoti kalyāṇasahāyo kalyāṇasampavaṅko;\nsammādiṭṭhiko hoti, sammādassanena samannāgato;\ncatunnaṁ jhānānaṁ ābhicetasikānaṁ diṭṭhadhammasukhavihārānaṁ nikāmalābhī hoti akicchalābhī akasiralābhī;\nanekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, seyyathidaṁ—ekampi jātiṁ dvepi jātiyo …pe… iti sākāraṁ sauddesaṁ anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati;\ndibbena cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena …pe… yathākammūpage satte pajānāti;\nāsavānaṁ khayā …pe… sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭhahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu āhuneyyo hoti …pe… anuttaraṁ puññakkhettaṁ lokassā”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, a mendicant with eight qualities is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, worthy of hospitality, worthy of a religious donation, worthy of veneration with cupped palms, and is the supreme field of merit for the world.\nWhat eight?\nIt’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThey’re learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s totally full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reciting them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.\nThey have good friends, companions, and associates.\nThey have right view, possessing right perspective.\nThey get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.\nThey recollect many kinds of past lives, with features and details.\nWith clairvoyance that is purified and surpasses the human, they see how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds.\nThey realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\nA mendicant with these eight qualities is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, worthy of hospitality, worthy of a religious donation, worthy of veneration with cupped palms, and is the supreme field of merit for the world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.57/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."}