{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.50/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.50","id":"suttacentral_an4.50","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.50/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these four corruptions obscure the sun and moon, so they don\u2019t glow and shine and dazzle. What four? Stormclouds \u2026 Fog \u2026 Smoke \u2026 An eclipse of R\u0101hu, lord of titans \u2026 These are four corruptions that obscure the sun and moon, so they don\u2019t glow and shine and dazzle. In the same way, these four things corrupt ascetics and brahmins, so they don\u2019t glow and shine and dazzle. What four? There are some ascetics and brahmins who drink beer and wine, not refraining from drinking beer and wine. This is the first thing that corrupts ascetics and brahmins \u2026 There are some ascetics and brahmins who have sex, not refraining from sex. This is the second thing that corrupts ascetics and brahmins \u2026 There are some ascetics and brahmins who accept gold and currency, not refraining from receiving gold and currency. This is the third thing that corrupts ascetics and brahmins \u2026 There are some ascetics and brahmins who make a living the wrong way, not refraining from wrong livelihood. This is the fourth thing that corrupts ascetics and brahmins \u2026 These are four things that corrupt ascetics and brahmins, so they don\u2019t glow and shine and dazzle. Some ascetics and brahmins are plagued by greed and hate; men shrouded by ignorance, enjoying things that seem pleasant. Drinking beer and wine, having sex, accepting currency and gold: they\u2019re ignorant. Some ascetics and brahmins make a living the wrong way. These corruptions were spoken of by the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun. When corrupted by these, some ascetics and brahmins don\u2019t shine or glow. Impure, dirty creatures, swathed in darkness, bondservants of craving, full of attachments, swell the horrors of the charnel ground, taking up future lives.\u201d","title":"Corruptions","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":288}