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#### Aṅguttara-Nikāya
Pañcaka-Nipāta
24. Āvāsika Vagga

#### The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fives
Chapter XXIV: In Residence

#### Sutta 238

#### Tatiya Avaṇṇāraha Suttaṁ

# Stinginess (b)

Translated by E. M. Hare

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[194]

[1] Thus have I heard:

Once the Exalted One dwelt near Sāvatthī;
and there he addressed the monks, saying:

"Monks."

'Yes, lord,' they replied;
and the Exalted One said:

"Monks, if a monk in residence
follow the course of five things,
as his reward he is surely cast into hell.

What five?

Without testing or plumbing the matter,
he speaks in praise of the unpraiseworthy;

■

without testing or plumbing the matter,
he speaks in dispraise of the praiseworthy;;

■

he is stingy over (sharing) his lodging;;

■

stingy as to the family (who provides);;

■

and he is stingy as to gains.

"Monks, if a monk in residence
follow the course of these five things,
as his reward he is surely cast into hell.

§

Monks, if a monk in residence
follow the course of five things,
as his reward he is surely set in heaven.

What five?

After testing and plumbing the matter,
he speaks in praise of the praiseworthy;

■

after testing and plumbing the matter,
he speaks in dispraise of the unpraiseworthy;

■

he is not stingy over (sharing) his lodging;

■

not stingy as to the family (who provides);

■

and he is not stingy as to gains.

Monks, if a monk in residence
follow the course of these five things,
as his reward he is surely set in heaven.

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