AN 4.144 Shining – Obhāsasutta

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AN 4.144 Shining – Obhāsasutta

Numbered Discourses 4.144 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.144

15. Brightness – 15. Ābhāvagga

AN 4.144 Shining – Obhāsasutta

 

1.1

Bhikkhū, there are four kinds of shining.

“Cattārome, bhikkhave, obhāsā.

1.2

What four?

Katame cattāro?

1.3

The shining of the moon, sun, fire, and wisdom.

Candobhāso, sūriyobhāso, aggobhāso, paññobhāso—

1.4

These are the four kinds of shining.

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro obhāsā.

1.5

The best of these four kinds of shining is the shining of wisdom.”

Etadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ catunnaṁ obhāsānaṁ yadidaṁ paññobhāso”ti.

1.6

Catutthaṁ.