{"id":"an6.33","title":"Non-decline (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an6.33","title":"Non-decline (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an6.33:0","sourceIds":["an6.33:0.1","an6.33:0.2","an6.33:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.33\n4. Devatāvagga\nDutiyaaparihānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 6.33\n4. Deities\nNon-decline (2nd)"}},{"id":"an6.33:1","sourceIds":["an6.33:1.1","an6.33:1.2","an6.33:1.3","an6.33:1.4","an6.33:1.5","an6.33:1.6","an6.33:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Imaṁ, bhikkhave, rattiṁ aññatarā devatā abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yenāhaṁ tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā maṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho, bhikkhave, sā devatā maṁ etadavoca:\n‘chayime, bhante, dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame cha?\nSatthugāravatā, dhammagāravatā, saṅghagāravatā, sikkhāgāravatā, hirigāravatā, ottappagāravatā—\nime kho, bhante, cha dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattantī’ti.\nIdamavoca, bhikkhave, sā devatā.\nIdaṁ vatvā maṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"“Tonight, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, came to me, bowed, stood to one side, and said to me:\n‘Sir, these six things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant.\nWhat six?\nRespect for the Teacher, for the teaching, for the Saṅgha, for the training, for conscience, and for prudence.\nThese six things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant.’\nThat is what that deity said.\nThen he bowed and respectfully circled me, keeping me on his right side, before vanishing right there."}},{"id":"an6.33:2","sourceIds":["an6.33:2.1","an6.33:2.2","an6.33:2.3","an6.33:2.4","an6.33:2.5","an6.33:2.6","an6.33:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satthugaru dhammagaru,\nsaṅghe ca tibbagāravo;\nHiriottappasampanno,\nsappatisso sagāravo;\nAbhabbo parihānāya,\nnibbānasseva santike”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"One respectful of the Teacher and the teaching,\nkeenly respecting the Saṅgha;\nendowed with conscience and prudence,\nreverential and respectful—\nit is impossible for them to decline;\nthey have drawn near to extinguishment.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.33/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."}