{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.40/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.40","id":"suttacentral_an4.40","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.40/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Ud\u0101y\u012b the brahmin went up to the Buddha, \u2026 and asked him, \u201cDoes the worthy Gotama praise sacrifice?\u201d \u201cBrahmin, I don\u2019t praise all sacrifices. Nor do I criticize all sacrifices. Take the kind of sacrifice where cattle, goats and sheep, chickens and pigs, and various kinds of creatures are slaughtered. I don\u2019t praise that kind of violent sacrifice. But take the kind of sacrifice where cattle, goats and sheep, chickens and pigs, and various kinds of creatures are not slaughtered. I do praise that kind of non-violent sacrifice; for example, a regular gift as a propitious sacrifice. Well-prepared and non-violent, a sacrifice that\u2019s allowable and timely, is attended by disciplined spiritual practitioners. The Buddhas\u2014<j>who have cast off the world\u2019s veil, passing beyond time and rebirth\u2014 praise this sacrifice, as they are expert in sacrifice. When you\u2019ve prepared a suitable offering, whether as sacrifice or for ancestors, sacrifice it with confident heart, in the fertile field of spiritual practitioners. When it\u2019s well-gotten, well-offered, <j>and well-sacrificed, to those worthy of a religious donation, a sacrifice is truly abundant, and even the deities are pleased. When an intelligent, faithful person, sacrifices like this, with a mind of letting go, that astute one is reborn in a happy, pleasing world.\u201d","title":"With Ud\u0101y\u012b","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":207}