{"id":"sn55.42","title":"Overflowing Merit (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn55.42","title":"Overflowing Merit (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn55.42:0","sourceIds":["sn55.42:0.1","sn55.42:0.2","sn55.42:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 55.42\n5. Sagāthakapuññābhisandavagga\nDutiyaabhisandasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 55.42\n5. Overflowing Merit, With Verses\nOverflowing Merit (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn55.42:1","sourceIds":["sn55.42:1.1","sn55.42:1.2","sn55.42:1.3","sn55.42:1.4","sn55.42:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, puññābhisandā, kusalābhisandā, sukhassāhārā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti—\nitipi so bhagavā …pe… satthā devamanussānaṁ buddho bhagavāti.\nAyaṁ paṭhamo puññābhisando kusalābhisando sukhassāhāro.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four kinds of overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurture happiness.\nWhat four?\nIt’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …"}},{"id":"sn55.42:2","sourceIds":["sn55.42:2.1","sn55.42:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako dhamme …pe…\nsaṅghe …pe….","en":"the teaching …\nthe Saṅgha …"}},{"id":"sn55.42:3","sourceIds":["sn55.42:3.1","sn55.42:3.2","sn55.42:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako vigatamalamaccherena cetasā agāraṁ ajjhāvasati muttacāgo payatapāṇi vossaggarato yācayogo dānasaṁvibhāgarato.\nAyaṁ catuttho puññābhisando kusalābhisando sukhassāhāro.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puññābhisandā, kusalābhisandā, sukhassāhārā.","en":"Furthermore, a noble disciple lives at home with heart rid of the stain of stinginess, freely generous, open-handed, loving to let go, committed to charity, loving to give and to share.\nThis is the fourth kind of overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurtures happiness.\nThese are the four kinds of overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurture happiness."}},{"id":"sn55.42:4","sourceIds":["sn55.42:4.1","sn55.42:4.2","sn55.42:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi puññābhisandehi kusalābhisandehi samannāgatassa ariyasāvakassa na sukaraṁ puññassa pamāṇaṁ gaṇetuṁ:\n‘ettako puññābhisando, kusalābhisando, sukhassāhāro’ti.\nAtha kho asaṅkhyeyyo appameyyo mahāpuññakkhandhotveva saṅkhyaṁ gacchati.","en":"When a noble disciple has these four kinds of overflowing merit and goodness, it’s not easy to count how much merit they have by saying that\nthis is the extent of their overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurtures happiness.\nIt’s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of merit."}},{"id":"sn55.42:5","sourceIds":["sn55.42:5.1","sn55.42:5.2","sn55.42:5.3","sn55.42:5.4","sn55.42:5.5","sn55.42:5.6","sn55.42:5.7","sn55.42:5.8","sn55.42:5.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yatthimā mahānadiyo saṁsandanti samenti, seyyathidaṁ—\ngaṅgā, yamunā, aciravatī, sarabhū, mahī, tattha na sukaraṁ udakassa pamāṇaṁ gaṇetuṁ:\n‘ettakāni udakāḷhakānī’ti vā ‘ettakāni udakāḷhakasatānī’ti vā ‘ettakāni udakāḷhakasahassānī’ti vā ‘ettakāni udakāḷhakasatasahassānī’ti vāti.\nAtha kho asaṅkhyeyyo appameyyo mahāudakakkhandhotveva saṅkhyaṁ gacchati.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, imehi catūhi puññābhisandehi kusalābhisandehi samannāgatassa ariyasāvakassa na sukaraṁ puññassa pamāṇaṁ gaṇetuṁ:\n‘ettako puññābhisando, kusalābhisando, sukhassāhāro’ti.\nAtha kho asaṅkhyeyyo appameyyo mahāpuññakkhandhotveva saṅkhyaṁ gacchatī”ti.\nIdamavoca bhagavā …pe…\nsatthā:","en":"There are places where the great rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—join together and converge.\nIt’s not easy to count how much water is in such places by saying\nhow many gallons, how many hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of gallons there are.\nIt’s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of water.\nIn the same way, when a noble disciple has these four kinds of overflowing merit and goodness, it’s not easy to count how much merit they have by saying that\nthis is the extent of their overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurtures happiness.\nIt’s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of merit.”\nThat is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn55.42:6","sourceIds":["sn55.42:6.1","sn55.42:6.2","sn55.42:6.3","sn55.42:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mahodadhiṁ aparimitaṁ mahāsaraṁ,\nBahubheravaṁ ratanagaṇānamālayaṁ;\nNajjo yathā naragaṇasaṅghasevitā,\nPuthū savantī upayanti sāgaraṁ.","en":"“Hosts of people use the rivers,\nand though the rivers are many,\nall reach the great deep, the boundless ocean,\nthe cruel sea that’s home to precious gems."}},{"id":"sn55.42:7","sourceIds":["sn55.42:7.1","sn55.42:7.2","sn55.42:7.3","sn55.42:7.4","sn55.42:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ naraṁ annapānavatthadadaṁ,\nSeyyāni paccattharaṇassa dāyakaṁ;\nPuññassa dhārā upayanti paṇḍitaṁ,\nNajjo yathā vārivahāva sāgaran”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"So too, when a person gives food, drink, and clothes;\nand they’re a giver of beds, seats, and mats—\nthe streams of merit reach that astute person,\nas the rivers bring their waters to the sea.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.42/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."}