{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an6.37/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an6.37","id":"suttacentral_an6.37","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an6.37/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. Now at that time Ve\u1e37uka\u1e47\u1e6dak\u012b, Nanda\u2019s mother, was preparing a religious donation with six factors for the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha headed by S\u0101riputta and Moggall\u0101na. The Buddha saw her doing this, with his clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, and he addressed the mendicants: \u201cThis Ve\u1e37uka\u1e47\u1e6dak\u012b, Nanda\u2019s mother, is preparing a religious donation with six factors for the mendicant Sa\u1e45gha headed by S\u0101riputta and Moggall\u0101na. And how does a religious donation have six factors? Three factors apply to the donor and three to the recipients. What three factors apply to the donor? It\u2019s when a donor is in a good mood before giving, while giving they feel confident, and after giving they\u2019re uplifted. These three factors apply to the donor. What three factors apply to the recipients? It\u2019s when the recipients are free of greed, hate, and delusion, or practicing to be free of them. These three factors apply to the recipients. Thus three factors apply to the donor and three to the recipients. That\u2019s how a religious donation has six factors. It\u2019s not easy to grasp the merit of such a six-factored donation by saying that this is the extent of their overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurtures happiness and is conducive to heaven, ripening in happiness and leading to heaven. And it leads to what is likable, desirable, agreeable, to welfare and happiness. It\u2019s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of merit. It\u2019s like trying to grasp how much water is in the ocean. It\u2019s not easy to say how many gallons, how many hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of gallons there are. It\u2019s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of water. In the same way, it\u2019s not easy to grasp the merit of such a six-factored donation \u2026 A good mood before giving, confidence while giving, feeling uplifted after giving: this is the perfect sacrifice. Free of greed, free of hate, free of delusion, undefiled; this is the field for the perfect sacrifice, the disciplined spiritual practitioners. After rinsing, you give with your own hands. This sacrifice is very fruitful for both yourself and others. When an intelligent, faithful person, sacrifices like this, with a mind of letting go, that astute one is reborn in a happy, pleasing world.\u201d","title":"A Gift With Six Factors","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":389}