{"id":"an7.34","title":"Easy to Admonish (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.34","title":"Easy to Admonish (1st)","units":[{"id":"an7.34:0","sourceIds":["an7.34:0.1","an7.34:0.2","an7.34:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.34\n4. Devatāvagga\nPaṭhamasovacassatāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.34\n4. Deities\nEasy to Admonish (1st)"}},{"id":"an7.34:1","sourceIds":["an7.34:1.1","an7.34:1.2","an7.34:1.3","an7.34:1.4","an7.34:1.5","an7.34:1.6","an7.34:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Imaṁ, bhikkhave, rattiṁ aññatarā devatā …pe… maṁ etadavoca:\n‘sattime, bhante, dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame satta?\nSatthugāravatā, dhammagāravatā, saṅghagāravatā, sikkhāgāravatā, samādhigāravatā, sovacassatā, kalyāṇamittatā.\nIme kho, bhante, satta dhammā bhikkhuno aparihānāya saṁvattantī’ti.\nIdamavoca, bhikkhave, sā devatā.\nIdaṁ vatvā maṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"“Mendicants, tonight a deity … 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; being easy to admonish, and good friendship.\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":"an7.34:2","sourceIds":["an7.34:2.1","an7.34:2.2","an7.34:2.3","an7.34:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satthugaru dhammagaru,\nsaṅghe ca tibbagāravo;\nSamādhigaru ātāpī,\nsikkhāya tibbagāravo.","en":"Respect for the Teacher and the teaching,\nand keen respect for the Saṅgha;\nrespecting immersion, being energetic,\nand keen respect for the training."}},{"id":"an7.34:3","sourceIds":["an7.34:3.1","an7.34:3.2","an7.34:3.3","an7.34:3.4","an7.34:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kalyāṇamitto suvaco,\nsappatisso sagāravo;\nAbhabbo parihānāya,\nnibbānasseva santike”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"One with good friends, easy to admonish,\nreverential and respectful,\ncan’t decline,\nand has drawn near to extinguishment.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.34/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."}