{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.85/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.85","id":"suttacentral_an4.85","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.85/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these four individuals are found in the world. What four? The dark bound for darkness, the dark bound for light, the light bound for darkness, and the light bound for light. And how is an individual dark and bound for darkness? It\u2019s when an individual is reborn in a low family\u2014a family of corpse-workers, bamboo-workers, hunters, chariot-makers, or scavengers\u2014poor, with little to eat or drink, where life is tough, and food and shelter are hard to find. And they\u2019re ugly, unsightly, deformed, sickly\u2014one-eyed, crippled, lame, or half-paralyzed. They don\u2019t get to have food, drink, clothes, and vehicles; garlands, fragrance, and makeup; or bed, house, and lighting. And they do bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. That\u2019s how an individual is dark and bound for darkness. And how is an individual dark and bound for light? It\u2019s when an individual is reborn in a low family \u2026 But they do good things by way of body, speech, and mind. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. That\u2019s how an individual is dark and bound for light. And how is an individual light and bound for darkness? It\u2019s when an individual is reborn in an eminent family\u2014a well-to-do family of aristocrats, brahmins, or householders\u2014rich, affluent, and wealthy, with lots of gold and silver, lots of property and assets, and lots of money and grain. And they\u2019re attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. They get to have food, drink, clothes, and vehicles; garlands, fragrance, and makeup; and bed, house, and lighting. But they do bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. That\u2019s how an individual is light and bound for darkness. And how is an individual light and bound for light? It\u2019s when an individual is reborn in an eminent family \u2026 And they do good things by way of body, speech, and mind. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. That\u2019s how an individual is light and bound for light. These are the four individuals found in the world.\u201d","title":"From Darkness to Darkness","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":391}