{"id":"an4.47","title":"Very Far Apart","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.47","title":"Very Far Apart","units":[{"id":"an4.47:0","sourceIds":["an4.47:0.1","an4.47:0.2","an4.47:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.47\n5. Rohitassavagga\nSuvidūrasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.47\n5. With Rohitassa\nVery Far Apart"}},{"id":"an4.47:1","sourceIds":["an4.47:1.1","an4.47:1.2","an4.47:1.3","an4.47:1.4","an4.47:1.5","an4.47:1.6","an4.47:1.7","an4.47:1.8","an4.47:1.9","an4.47:1.10","an4.47:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, suvidūravidūrāni.\nKatamāni cattāri?\nNabhañca, bhikkhave, pathavī ca;\nidaṁ paṭhamaṁ suvidūravidūre.\nOrimañca, bhikkhave, tīraṁ samuddassa pārimañca;\nidaṁ dutiyaṁ suvidūravidūre.\nYato ca, bhikkhave, verocano abbhudeti yattha ca atthameti;\nidaṁ tatiyaṁ suvidūravidūre.\nSatañca, bhikkhave, dhammo asatañca dhammo;\nidaṁ catutthaṁ suvidūravidūre.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri suvidūravidūrānīti.","en":"“Mendicants, these four things are very far apart.\nWhat four?\nThe firmament and the earth. …\nThe near and the far shore of the ocean. …\nWhere the dazzling sun rises and where it sets. …\nThe teaching of the virtuous and the teaching of the wicked. …\nThese are the four things very far apart."}},{"id":"an4.47:2","sourceIds":["an4.47:2.1","an4.47:2.2","an4.47:2.3","an4.47:2.4","an4.47:2.5","an4.47:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nabhañca dūre pathavī ca dūre,\nPāraṁ samuddassa tadāhu dūre;\nYato ca verocano abbhudeti,\nPabhaṅkaro yattha ca atthameti;\nTato have dūrataraṁ vadanti,\nSatañca dhammaṁ asatañca dhammaṁ.","en":"The firmament is far from the earth;\nthey say the other shore of the ocean is far;\nand where the dazzling sun rises is far\nfrom where that beacon sets.\nBut even further apart than that, they say,\nis the teaching of the virtuous from the wicked."}},{"id":"an4.47:3","sourceIds":["an4.47:3.1","an4.47:3.2","an4.47:3.3","an4.47:3.4","an4.47:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Abyāyiko hoti sataṁ samāgamo,\nYāvāpi tiṭṭheyya tatheva hoti;\nKhippañhi veti asataṁ samāgamo,\nTasmā sataṁ dhammo asabbhi ārakā”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"The company of the virtuous is reliable;\nas long as it remains, it stays the same.\nBut the company of the wicked is fickle,\nand so the teaching of the virtuous is far from the wicked.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.47/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."}