Aṇguttara Nikāya
Chakka-Nipāta
III: Anuttariya-Vagga

The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sixes
Chapter III: Above All

Sutta 22

Aparihānīya-Dhamma Suttaṃ

The Unfailing

Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.

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[221]

[1] Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
at Jeta Grove,
in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, six are these things
that fail not
I will teach you;
listen,
pay heed and I will speak.

And what, monks, are these six?

Delighting not in worldly activity,^[1]
in talk,
in sleep,
in company;
fair speech
and friendship with good men.

Verily, monks, these are the six things
that fail not.

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Monks, all those who
in the long road of the past
have failed not in righteousness,
have failed not in righteousness
just because of these six things;
all those who in the long road of the future
shall fail not in righteousness,
shall fail not in righteousness,
just because of these six things;
yea, monks, all who now fail not in righteousness,
fail not in righteousness
just because of these six things.'

 

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^[1] Kamma.

 

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Of Related Interest:

See AN 6.21 for what was probably the beginning of this sutta.