Pañcakanipāta 35

Numbered Discourses 5.35

4. With Sumanā

The Benefits of Giving

1 “Mendicants, there are five benefits of giving. What five? A giver, a donor is dear and beloved by many people. Good and true persons associate with them. They get a good reputation. They don’t neglect a layperson’s duties. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. These are the five benefits of giving.

2 Giving, one is loved,

and follows the way of the good.

The good, disciplined spiritual practitioners

always associate with you.

3 They teach you the Dhamma

that casts aside all suffering.

Having understood this teaching,

the undefiled one is fully extinguished.”