{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.60/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.60","id":"suttacentral_an4.60","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.60/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then the householder An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cHouseholder, when a noble disciple does four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven. What four? It\u2019s when a noble disciple serves the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. When a noble disciple does these four things they are practicing appropriately for a layperson, which brings fame and leads to heaven. Those who are astute practice the way that\u2019s appropriate for laypeople. They provide those who are ethical and rightly comported with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and supplies for the sick. Their merit always grows by day and by night. They pass on to a place in heaven, having done excellent deeds.\u201d","title":"Lay Practice","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":137}