{"id":"an6.2","title":"Worthy of Offerings (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an6.2","title":"Worthy of Offerings (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an6.2:0","sourceIds":["an6.2:0.1","an6.2:0.2","an6.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.2\n1. Āhuneyyavagga\nDutiyaāhuneyyasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 6.2\n1. Worthy of Offerings\nWorthy of Offerings (2nd)"}},{"id":"an6.2:1","sourceIds":["an6.2:1.1","an6.2:1.2","an6.2:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Chahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu āhuneyyo hoti …pe… anuttaraṁ puññakkhettaṁ lokassa.\nKatamehi chahi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anekavihitaṁ iddhividhaṁ paccanubhoti—ekopi hutvā bahudhā hoti, bahudhāpi hutvā eko hoti; āvibhāvaṁ tirobhāvaṁ; tirokuṭṭaṁ tiropākāraṁ tiropabbataṁ asajjamāno gacchati, seyyathāpi ākāse; pathaviyāpi ummujjanimujjaṁ karoti, seyyathāpi udake; udakepi abhijjamāne gacchati, seyyathāpi pathaviyaṁ; ākāsepi pallaṅkena kamati, seyyathāpi pakkhī sakuṇo; imepi candimasūriye evaṁmahiddhike evaṁmahānubhāve pāṇinā parimasati parimajjati; yāva brahmalokāpi kāyena vasaṁ vatteti.","en":"“Mendicants, a mendicant with six 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 six?\nIt’s a mendicant who wields the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying themselves and becoming one again; materializing and dematerializing; going unobstructed through a wall, a rampart, or a mountain as if through space; diving in and out of the earth as if it were water; walking on water as if it were earth; flying cross-legged through the sky like a bird; touching and stroking with the hand the sun and moon, so mighty and powerful. They control the body as far as the realm of divinity."}},{"id":"an6.2:2","sourceIds":["an6.2:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dibbāya, sotadhātuyā visuddhāya atikkantamānusikāya ubho sadde suṇāti—dibbe ca mānuse ca, ye dūre santike ca.","en":"With clairaudience that is purified and superhuman, they hear both kinds of sounds, human and heavenly, whether near or far."}},{"id":"an6.2:3","sourceIds":["an6.2:3.1","an6.2:3.2","an6.2:3.3","an6.2:3.4","an6.2:3.5","an6.2:3.6","an6.2:3.7","an6.2:3.8","an6.2:3.9","an6.2:3.10","an6.2:3.11","an6.2:3.12","an6.2:3.13","an6.2:3.14","an6.2:3.15","an6.2:3.16","an6.2:3.17"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Parasattānaṁ parapuggalānaṁ cetasā ceto paricca pajānāti.\nSarāgaṁ vā cittaṁ sarāgaṁ cittanti pajānāti,\nvītarāgaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nsadosaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nvītadosaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nsamohaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nvītamohaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nsaṅkhittaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nvikkhittaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nmahaggataṁ vā cittaṁ …\namahaggataṁ vā cittaṁ …\nsauttaraṁ vā cittaṁ …\nanuttaraṁ vā cittaṁ …\nsamāhitaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nasamāhitaṁ vā cittaṁ …\nvimuttaṁ vā cittaṁ …\navimuttaṁ vā cittaṁ avimuttaṁ cittanti pajānāti.","en":"They understand the minds of other beings and individuals, having encompassed them with their own mind.\nThey understand mind with greed as ‘mind with greed’,\nand mind without greed as ‘mind without greed’.\nThey understand mind with hate …\nmind without hate …\nmind with delusion …\nmind without delusion …\nconstricted mind …\nscattered mind …\nexpansive mind …\nunexpansive mind …\nmind that is not supreme …\nmind that is supreme …\nmind immersed in samādhi …\nmind not immersed in samādhi …\nfreed mind …\nThey understand unfreed mind as ‘unfreed mind’."}},{"id":"an6.2:4","sourceIds":["an6.2:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, seyyathidaṁ—ekampi jātiṁ dvepi jātiyo …pe…. Iti sākāraṁ sauddesaṁ anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati.","en":"They recollect many kinds of past lives. That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. They remember: ‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details."}},{"id":"an6.2:5","sourceIds":["an6.2:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dibbena cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena satte passati cavamāne upapajjamāne hīne paṇīte suvaṇṇe dubbaṇṇe, sugate duggate yathākammūpage satte pajānāti: ‘ime vata bhonto sattā kāyaduccaritena samannāgatā vacīduccaritena samannāgatā manoduccaritena samannāgatā ariyānaṁ upavādakā micchādiṭṭhikā micchādiṭṭhikammasamādānā, te kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapannā. Ime vā pana bhonto sattā kāyasucaritena samannāgatā vacīsucaritena samannāgatā manosucaritena samannāgatā ariyānaṁ anupavādakā sammādiṭṭhikā sammādiṭṭhikammasamādānā, te kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapannā’ti. Iti dibbena cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena satte passati cavamāne upapajjamāne hīne paṇīte suvaṇṇe dubbaṇṇe, sugate duggate yathākammūpage satte pajānāti.","en":"With clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, they see sentient beings passing away and being reborn—inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. They understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds: ‘These dear beings did bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. They denounced the noble ones; they had wrong view; and they chose to act out of that wrong view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. These dear beings, however, did good things by way of body, speech, and mind. They never denounced the noble ones; they had right view; and they chose to act out of that right view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.’ And so, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, they see sentient beings passing away and being reborn—inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. They understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds."}},{"id":"an6.2:6","sourceIds":["an6.2:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.","en":"They 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."}},{"id":"an6.2:7","sourceIds":["an6.2:7.1","an6.2:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imehi kho, bhikkhave, chahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu āhuneyyo hoti …pe… anuttaraṁ puññakkhettaṁ lokassā”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"A mendicant with these six 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/an6.2/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."}