{"id":"an7.33","title":"Respect for Conscience","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.33","title":"Respect for Conscience","units":[{"id":"an7.33:0","sourceIds":["an7.33:0.1","an7.33:0.2","an7.33:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.33\n4. Devatāvagga\nHirigāravasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.33\n4. Deities\nRespect for Conscience"}},{"id":"an7.33:1","sourceIds":["an7.33:1.1","an7.33:1.2","an7.33:1.3","an7.33:1.4","an7.33:1.5","an7.33:1.6","an7.33:1.7"],"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‘sattime, bhante, dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame satta?\nSatthugāravatā, dhammagāravatā, saṅghagāravatā, sikkhāgāravatā, samādhigāravatā, hirigāravatā, ottappagāravatā.\nIme kho, bhante, satta dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattantī’ti.\nIdamavoca, bhikkhave, sā devatā.\nIdaṁ vatvā maṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"“Mendicants, 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 seven things don’t lead to the decline of a mendicant.\nWhat seven?\nRespect for the Teacher, for the teaching, for the Saṅgha, for the training, for immersion, for conscience, and for prudence.\nThese seven 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":"an7.33:2","sourceIds":["an7.33:2.1","an7.33:2.2","an7.33:2.3","an7.33:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satthugaru dhammagaru,\nsaṅghe ca tibbagāravo;\nSamādhigaru ātāpī,\nsikkhāya tibbagāravo.","en":"One respectful of the Teacher and the teaching,\nkeenly respecting the Saṅgha;\nrespecting immersion, being energetic,\nand keenly respecting the training;"}},{"id":"an7.33:3","sourceIds":["an7.33:3.1","an7.33:3.2","an7.33:3.3","an7.33:3.4","an7.33:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Hiriottappasampanno,\nsappatisso sagāravo;\nAbhabbo parihānāya,\nnibbānasseva santike”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"endowed 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/an7.33/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."}