Sobhanavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Catukkanipāta · Vol. 21 · Section 212

[212] Bhikkhus, one possessed of four qualities is deposited in hell (niraya) as if carried and put there. Of what four? Misconduct by body (kāya-duccarita), misconduct by speech (vacī-duccarita), misconduct by mind (mano-duccarita), and wrong view (micchādiṭṭhi). Bhikkhus, one possessed of these four qualities is deposited in hell as if carried and put there. Bhikkhus, one possessed of four qualities is deposited in heaven (sagga) as if carried and put there. Of what four? Good conduct by body (kāya-sucarita), good conduct by speech (vacī-sucarita), good conduct by mind (mano-sucarita), and right view (sammādiṭṭhi). Bhikkhus, one possessed of these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if carried and put there. [Footnote in the Siam Raṭṭha edition, citing the M. reading, gives the summary verse (uddāna) here: "The training rules and the faithless one, the seven kinds of action and then the ten kinds of action, the eightfold and the tenfold path, two on evil qualities, and another two."]

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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