{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an8.44/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an8.44","id":"suttacentral_an8.44","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.44/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Ves\u0101l\u012b, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof. Then the layman V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cV\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha, the observance of the sabbath with its eight factors is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful \u2026 blameless, they go to a heavenly place.\u201d When he said this, V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha said to the Buddha: \u201cIf my loved ones\u2014relatives and kin\u2014were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness. If all the aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s so true, V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha! That\u2019s so true, V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha! If all the aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness. If the whole world\u2014with its gods, M\u0101ras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans\u2014were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness. If these great sal trees were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness\u2014if they were sentient. How much more then a human being!\u201d","title":"With V\u0101se\u1e6d\u1e6dha on the Sabbath","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":229}