Aṇguttara Nikāya
Chakka-Nipāta
I: Āhuneyya-Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Sixes
Chapter I: The Worthy
Sutta 3
Indriya Suttaṃ
Faculties
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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[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, a monk who follows six things is worthy of offerings,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of oblations,
meet to be reverently saluted,
the world's peerless field for merit.
What six?
The faculty[1] of faith,
the faculty of energy,
the faculty of mindfulness,
the faculty of concentration,
the faculty of insight;
destroying the cankers,
he enters and abides
in the canker-free mind-emancipation,
insight-emancipation,
realizing this here and now
entirely by his own knowledge.
Verily, monks, a monk who follows these six things is worthy of offerings,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of oblations,
meet to be reverently saluted,
the world's peerless field for merit.'
[1] Indriya, or 'governance,' p. 200; see D. iii, 239 for the five.
