{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.55/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.55","id":"suttacentral_an4.55","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.55/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Bhaggas at Crocodile\u2019s Bellow, in the deer park at Bhesaka\u1e37\u0101\u2019s Wood. Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the home of the householder Nakula\u2019s father, where he sat down on the seat spread out. Then the householder Nakula\u2019s father and the housewife Nakula\u2019s mother went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. Nakula\u2019s father said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, ever since we were both young, and Nakula\u2019s mother was given to me in marriage, I can\u2019t recall betraying her even in thought, still less in deed. We want to see each other in both this life and the next.\u201d Then Nakula\u2019s mother said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, ever since we were both young, and I was given in marriage to Nakula\u2019s father, I can\u2019t recall betraying him even in thought, still less in deed. We want to see each other in both this life and the next.\u201d \u201cHouseholders, if wife and husband want to see each other in both this life and the next, they should be equals in faith, ethics, generosity, and wisdom. When both are faithful and bountiful, disciplined, living righteously, then wife and husband say nice things to each other. Their needs are amply satisfied, so they live at ease. Their enemies are downhearted, when both are equal in ethics. Having practiced the teaching here, both equal in precepts and observances, they delight in the heavenly realm, enjoying all the pleasures they desire.\u201d","title":"Equality (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":265}