Academic | Sutta Name | Notes | PSA Plae | Vagga | Nikaya | PTS | Keywords |
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AN.IV.134 | U.t.thaana Sutta | The four combinations of merit nourishing a person in their present lifetime are enumerated as follows: 1. those nourished exclusively by effort expended in the present lifetime, and not by the merit of previous lifetimes; 2. those nourished exclusively by merit accrued in previous lifetimes, not by the efforts of the present lifetime (e.g. angels); 3. those nourished both by effort expended in the present lifetime and also by the merit of previous lifetimes i.e. royalty and those in positions of power, and; 4. those nourished neither by the efforts of the previous lifetime nor the merit of previous lifetimes i.e. denizens of hell. | 35/351 | Catukanipaata Tatiya Pa.n.naasaka | A"nguttara | A.ii. |