{"id":"sn55.43","title":"Overflowing Merit (3rd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn55.43","title":"Overflowing Merit (3rd)","units":[{"id":"sn55.43:0","sourceIds":["sn55.43:0.1","sn55.43:0.2","sn55.43:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 55.43\n5. Sagāthakapuññābhisandavagga\nTatiyaabhisandasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 55.43\n5. Overflowing Merit, With Verses\nOverflowing Merit (3rd)"}},{"id":"sn55.43:1","sourceIds":["sn55.43:1.1","sn55.43:1.2","sn55.43:1.3","sn55.43:1.4","sn55.43:1.5"],"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":"sn55.43:2","sourceIds":["sn55.43:2.1","sn55.43:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako dhamme …pe…\nsaṅghe …pe….","en":"the teaching …\nthe Saṅgha …"}},{"id":"sn55.43:3","sourceIds":["sn55.43:3.1","sn55.43:3.2","sn55.43:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, ariyasāvako paññavā hoti udayatthagāminiyā paññāya samannāgato ariyāya nibbedhikāya sammā dukkhakkhayagāminiyā.\nAyaṁ catuttho puññābhisando kusalābhisando sukhassāhāro.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puññābhisandā kusalābhisandā sukhassāhārā.","en":"Furthermore, a noble disciple is wise. They have the wisdom of arising and passing away which is noble, penetrative, and leads to the complete ending of suffering.\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":"sn55.43:4","sourceIds":["sn55.43:4.1","sn55.43:4.2","sn55.43:4.3","sn55.43:4.4","sn55.43:4.5"],"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 gacchatī”ti.\nIdamavoca bhagavā …pe…\nsatthā:","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.”\nThat is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn55.43:5","sourceIds":["sn55.43:5.1","sn55.43:5.2","sn55.43:5.3","sn55.43:5.4","sn55.43:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo puññakāmo kusale patiṭṭhito,\nBhāveti maggaṁ amatassa pattiyā;\nSo dhammasārādhigamo khaye rato,\nNa vedhati maccurājāgamanasmin”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"“One who desires merit, grounded in the skillful,\ndevelops the path to realize freedom from death.\nOnce they’ve reached the heart of the teaching, delighting in ending,\nthey don’t tremble at the approach of the King of Death.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.43/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."}