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Numbered Discourses 3.146 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.146

15. Good Fortune – 15. Maṅgalavagga

AN 3.146 Unskillful – Akusalasutta

 

1.1

“Someone with three qualities is cast down to hell.

“Tīhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.

1.2

What three?

Katamehi tīhi?

1.3

Unskillful deeds by way of body, speech, and mind.

Akusalena kāyakammena, akusalena vacīkammena, akusalena manokammena—

1.4

Someone with these three qualities is cast down to hell.

Imehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.

2.1

Someone with three qualities is raised up to heaven.

Tīhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge.

2.2

What three?

Katamehi tīhi?

2.3

Skillful deeds by way of body, speech, and mind.

Kusalena kāyakammena, kusalena vacīkammena, kusalena manokammena—

2.4

Someone with these three qualities is raised up to heaven.”

Imehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge”ti.

2.5

 

Paṭhamaṁ.