{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.4/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.4","id":"suttacentral_an4.4","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.4/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cWhen a foolish, incompetent untrue person acts wrongly toward four people they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they brim with much wickedness. What four? Mother \u2026 father \u2026 a Realized One \u2026 and a disciple of a Realized One. When a foolish, incompetent untrue person acts wrongly toward these four people they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they brim with much wickedness. When an astute, competent true person acts rightly toward four individuals they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don\u2019t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they brim with much merit. What four? Mother \u2026 father \u2026 a Realized One \u2026 and a disciple of a Realized One. When an astute, competent true person acts rightly toward these four people they keep themselves healthy and whole. They don\u2019t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they brim with much merit. A person who does wrong by their mother or father, or a Realized One, a Buddha, or one of their disciples, brims with much wickedness. Because of their unprincipled conduct toward their parents, they\u2019re criticized in this life by the astute, and they depart to be reborn in a place of loss. A person who does right by their mother and father, or a Realized One, a Buddha, or one of their disciples, brims with much merit. Because of their principled conduct toward their parents, they\u2019re praised in this life by the astute, and they depart to rejoice in heaven.\u201d","title":"Broken (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":270}