{"id":"an3.31","title":"With Divinity","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.31","title":"With Divinity","units":[{"id":"an3.31:0","sourceIds":["an3.31:0.1","an3.31:0.2","an3.31:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.31\n4. Devadūtavagga\nSabrahmakasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.31\n4. Messengers of the Gods\nWith Divinity"}},{"id":"an3.31:1","sourceIds":["an3.31:1.1","an3.31:1.2","an3.31:1.3","an3.31:1.4","an3.31:1.5","an3.31:1.6","an3.31:1.7","an3.31:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sabrahmakāni, bhikkhave, tāni kulāni yesaṁ puttānaṁ mātāpitaro ajjhāgāre pūjitā honti.\nSapubbācariyakāni, bhikkhave, tāni kulāni yesaṁ puttānaṁ mātāpitaro ajjhāgāre pūjitā honti.\nSāhuneyyāni, bhikkhave, tāni kulāni yesaṁ puttānaṁ mātāpitaro ajjhāgāre pūjitā honti.\n‘Brahmā’ti, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ etaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\n‘Pubbācariyā’ti, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ etaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\n‘Āhuneyyā’ti, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ etaṁ adhivacanaṁ.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nBahukārā, bhikkhave, mātāpitaro puttānaṁ, āpādakā posakā, imassa lokassa dassetāroti.","en":"“Mendicants, a family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with divinity.\nA family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with the first tutors.\nA family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with those worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods.\n‘Divinity’ is a term for your parents.\n‘First tutors’ is a term for your parents.\n‘Worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods’ is a term for your parents.\nWhy is that?\nParents are very helpful to their children, they raise them, nurture them, and show them the world."}},{"id":"an3.31:2","sourceIds":["an3.31:2.1","an3.31:2.2","an3.31:2.3","an3.31:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Brahmāti mātāpitaro,\npubbācariyāti vuccare;\nĀhuneyyā ca puttānaṁ,\npajāya anukampakā.","en":"Parents are said to be ‘divinity’\nand ‘first tutors’, it’s said.\nThey’re worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods from their children,\nfor they love their offspring."}},{"id":"an3.31:3","sourceIds":["an3.31:3.1","an3.31:3.2","an3.31:3.3","an3.31:3.4","an3.31:3.5","an3.31:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā hi ne namasseyya,\nsakkareyya ca paṇḍito;\nAnnena atha pānena,\nvatthena sayanena ca;\nUcchādanena nhāpanena,\npādānaṁ dhovanena ca.","en":"Therefore an astute person\nwould revere them and honor them\nwith food and drink,\nclothes and bedding,\nanointing and bathing,\nand by washing their feet."}},{"id":"an3.31:4","sourceIds":["an3.31:4.1","an3.31:4.2","an3.31:4.3","an3.31:4.4","an3.31:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tāya naṁ pāricariyāya,\nmātāpitūsu paṇḍitā;\nIdheva naṁ pasaṁsanti,\npecca sagge pamodatī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"Because they look after\ntheir parents like this,\nin this life they’re praised by the astute,\nand they depart to rejoice in heaven.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.31/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."}