{"id":"an4.95","title":"A Firebrand","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.95","title":"A Firebrand","units":[{"id":"an4.95:0","sourceIds":["an4.95:0.1","an4.95:0.2","an4.95:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.95\n10. Asuravagga\nChavālātasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.95\n10. Titans\nA Firebrand"}},{"id":"an4.95:1","sourceIds":["an4.95:1.1","an4.95:1.2","an4.95:1.3","an4.95:1.4","an4.95:1.5","an4.95:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ.\nKatame cattāro?\nNevattahitāya paṭipanno no parahitāya,\nparahitāya paṭipanno no attahitāya,\nattahitāya paṭipanno no parahitāya,\nattahitāya ceva paṭipanno parahitāya ca.","en":"“Mendicants, these four individuals are found in the world.\nWhat four?\nOne who practices to benefit neither themselves nor others;\none who practices to benefit others, but not themselves;\none who practices to benefit themselves, but not others; and\none who practices to benefit both themselves and others."}},{"id":"an4.95:2","sourceIds":["an4.95:2.1","an4.95:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, chavālātaṁ ubhato padittaṁ, majjhe gūthagataṁ, neva gāme kaṭṭhatthaṁ pharati na araññe (…);\ntathūpamāhaṁ, bhikkhave, imaṁ puggalaṁ vadāmi yvāyaṁ puggalo nevattahitāya paṭipanno no parahitāya.","en":"Suppose there was a firebrand for lighting a funeral pyre, burning at both ends, and smeared with dung in the middle. It couldn’t be used as timber either in the village or the wilderness.\nThe individual who practices to benefit neither themselves nor others is like this, I say."}},{"id":"an4.95:3","sourceIds":["an4.95:3.1","an4.95:3.2","an4.95:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ puggalo parahitāya paṭipanno no attahitāya, ayaṁ imesaṁ dvinnaṁ puggalānaṁ abhikkantataro ca paṇītataro ca.\nTatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ puggalo attahitāya paṭipanno no parahitāya, ayaṁ imesaṁ tiṇṇaṁ puggalānaṁ abhikkantataro ca paṇītataro ca.\nTatra, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ puggalo attahitāya ceva paṭipanno parahitāya ca, ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ puggalānaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca pāmokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca.","en":"The individual who practices to benefit others, but not themselves, is better than that.\nThe individual who practices to benefit themselves, but not others, is better than both of those.\nBut the individual who practices to benefit both themselves and others is the foremost, best, chief, highest, and finest of the four."}},{"id":"an4.95:4","sourceIds":["an4.95:4.1","an4.95:4.2","an4.95:4.3","an4.95:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gavā khīraṁ, khīramhā dadhi, dadhimhā navanītaṁ, navanītamhā sappi, sappimhā sappimaṇḍo, sappimaṇḍo tattha aggamakkhāyati;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, yvāyaṁ puggalo attahitāya ceva paṭipanno parahitāya ca, ayaṁ imesaṁ catunnaṁ puggalānaṁ aggo ca seṭṭho ca pāmokkho ca uttamo ca pavaro ca.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmin”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"From a cow comes milk, from milk comes curds, from curds come butter, from butter comes ghee, and from ghee comes cream of ghee. And the cream of ghee is said to be the best of these.\nIn the same way, the individual who practices to benefit both themselves and others is the foremost, best, chief, highest, and finest of the four.\nThese are the four individuals found in the world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.95/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."}