{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.34/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.34","id":"suttacentral_an6.34","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.34/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then as Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na was in private retreat this thought came to his mind, \u201cWhich gods know that they are stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening?\u201d Now, at that time a monk named Tissa had recently passed away and been reborn in a realm of divinity. There they knew that The divinity Tissa was very mighty and powerful. And then Venerable Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, vanished from Jeta\u2019s Grove and reappeared in that realm of divinity. Tissa saw Moggall\u0101na coming off in the distance, and said to him, \u201cCome, my good fellow Moggall\u0101na! Welcome, my good fellow! It\u2019s been a long time since you took the opportunity to come here. Sit, my good Moggall\u0101na, this seat is for you.\u201d Moggall\u0101na sat down on the seat spread out. Then Tissa bowed to Moggall\u0101na and sat to one side. Moggall\u0101na said to him, \u201cTissa, which gods know that they are stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening?\u201d \u201cThe gods of the four great kings know this.\u201d \u201cBut do all of them know this?\u201d \u201cNo, my good Moggall\u0101na, not all of them. Those who lack experiential confidence in the Buddha, the teaching, and the Sa\u1e45gha, and lack the ethics loved by the noble ones, do not know that they are stream-enterers. But those who have experiential confidence in the Buddha, the teaching, and the Sa\u1e45gha, and have the ethics loved by the noble ones, do know that they are stream-enterers.\u201d \u201cBut Tissa, is it only the gods of the four great kings who know that they are stream-enterers, or do the gods of the thirty-three \u2026 the gods of Yama \u2026 the joyful gods \u2026 the gods who love to create \u2026 and the gods who control what is created by others know that they are stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening?\u201d \u201cThe gods of these various classes know this.\u201d \u201cBut do all of them know this?\u201d \u201cNo, my good Moggall\u0101na, not all of them. Those who lack experiential confidence in the Buddha, the teaching, and the Sa\u1e45gha, and lack the ethics loved by the noble ones, do not know that they are stream-enterers. But those who have experiential confidence in the Buddha, the teaching, and the Sa\u1e45gha, and have the ethics loved by the noble ones, do know that they are stream-enterers.\u201d Moggall\u0101na approved and agreed with what the divinity Tissa said. Then, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, he vanished from that realm of divinity and reappeared in Jeta\u2019s Grove.","title":"With Mah\u0101moggall\u0101na","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":458}