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7. Asappurisadānasuttaṁ
Unworthy gifts
[015.07] Bhikkhus, these five are unworthy gifts. What five?
Giving disrespectfully, giving without heart and thought, not giving with one's own hand, giving something which is to be discarded and giving with the view that there are no results for giving. Bhikkhus, these five are unworthy gifts.
Bhikkhus, these five are worthy gifts. What five?
Giving respectfully, giving with heart and thought, giving with one's own hand, giving something which is not to be discarded and giving with the view that there are results for giving. Bhikkhus, these five are worthy gifts.
8. Sappurisadānasuttaṁ
Worthy gifts
[015.08] Bhikkhus, these five are worthy gifts. What five?
Giving gifts out of faith, giving gifts respectfully, giving gifts at the right time, giving gifts with sympathetic feelings and giving gifts without troubling oneself or others.
Bhikkhus, having given gifts out of faith, wherever he is born for the results of those actions, is born wealthy, with much resources. He becomes handsome, with pleasant looks endowed with the highest grace of beauty.
Bhikkhus, having given gifts respectfully, wherever he is born for the results of those actions, is born wealthy, with much resources. If there be his wife, children, slaves, mesengers or workmen they too listen and arouse the mind to understand.
Bhikkhus, having given gifts at the right time, wherever he is born for the results of those actions, is born wealthy, with much resources. As time goes the reults become various.
Bhikkhus, having given gifts with sympathetic feelings, wherever he is born for the results of those actions, is born wealthy, with much resources. His mind bends to partake of the highest of the five strands of sensual pleasures.
Bhikkhus, having given gifts without troubling oneself or others wherever he is born for the results of those actions, is born wealthy, with much resources. There he does not come to any destruction of wealth and resources from fire, water, from the king, from robbers or from unwanted inheritors. Bhikkhus, these five are worthy gifts.