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Numbered Discourses 4.232 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.232

24. Deeds – 24. Kammavagga

AN 4.232 Deeds In Brief – Saṅkhittasutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, I declare these four kinds of deeds, having realized them with my own insight.

“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, kammāni mayā sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditāni.

1.2

What four?

Katamāni cattāri?

1.3

There are dark deeds with dark results.

Atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ kaṇhaṁ kaṇhavipākaṁ;

1.4

There are bright deeds with bright results.

atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ sukkaṁ sukkavipākaṁ;

1.5

There are dark and bright deeds with dark and bright results.

atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ kaṇhasukkaṁ kaṇhasukkavipākaṁ;

1.6

There are neither dark nor bright deeds with neither dark nor bright results, which lead to the ending of deeds.

atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ akaṇhaasukkaṁ akaṇhaasukkavipākaṁ kammakkhayāya saṁvattati.

1.7

These are the four kinds of deeds that I declare, having realized them with my own insight.”

Imāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri kammāni mayā sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā paveditānī”ti.

1.8

 

Paṭhamaṁ.