{"id":"sn55.36","title":"In Common With the Gods","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn55.36","title":"In Common With the Gods","units":[{"id":"sn55.36:0","sourceIds":["sn55.36:0.1","sn55.36:0.2","sn55.36:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 55.36\n4. Puññābhisandavagga\nDevasabhāgatasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 55.36\n4. Overflowing Merit\nIn Common With the Gods"}},{"id":"sn55.36:1","sourceIds":["sn55.36:1.1","sn55.36:1.2","sn55.36:1.3","sn55.36:1.4","sn55.36:1.5","sn55.36:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgataṁ attamanā devā sabhāgataṁ kathenti.\nKatamehi catūhi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti—\nitipi so bhagavā …pe… satthā devamanussānaṁ buddho bhagavāti.\nYā tā devatā buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgatā ito cutā tatrūpapannā tāsaṁ evaṁ hoti:\n‘yathārūpena kho mayaṁ buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgatā tato cutā idhūpapannā, ariyasāvakopi tathārūpena buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato ehīti devānaṁ santike’ti.","en":"“Mendicants, when someone possesses four things the gods are pleased and speak of what they have in common.\nWhat four?\nFirstly, a noble disciple possesses experiential confidence in the Buddha …\nThere are deities who possess experiential confidence in the Buddha who passed away from here and were reborn there. They think:\n‘Possessing such experiential confidence in the Buddha, we passed away from there and were reborn here. That noble disciple possesses the same kind of experiential confidence in the Buddha, so they will come into the presence of the gods.’"}},{"id":"sn55.36:2","sourceIds":["sn55.36:2.1","sn55.36:2.2","sn55.36:2.3","sn55.36:2.4","sn55.36:2.5","sn55.36:2.6","sn55.36:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako dhamme …pe…\nsaṅghe …pe…\nariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgato hoti akhaṇḍehi …pe… samādhisaṁvattanikehi.\nYā tā devatā ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgatā ito cutā tatrūpapannā tāsaṁ evaṁ hoti:\n‘yathārūpehi kho mayaṁ ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgatā tato cutā idhūpapannā, ariyasāvakopi tathārūpehi ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgato ehīti devānaṁ santike’ti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgataṁ attamanā devā sabhāgataṁ kathentī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"Furthermore, a noble disciple possesses experiential confidence in the teaching …\nthe Saṅgha …\nAnd they possess the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.\nThere are deities who possess the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones who passed away from here and were reborn there. They think:\n‘Possessing such ethical conduct loved by the noble ones, we passed away from there and were reborn here. That noble disciple possesses the same kind of ethical conduct loved by the noble ones, so they will come into the presence of the gods.’\nWhen someone possesses four things the gods are pleased and speak of what they have in common.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.36/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."}