5.
The Discourse on the Benefits of Giving
35.
"Monks, there are these five benefits of giving.
Which five?
One is dear and agreeable to many people;
good persons who are peaceful associate with one;
a good reputation arises;
one does not depart from the duties of a householder;
upon the body's collapse at death, one is reborn in a fortunate realm, in a heavenly world.
These, monks, are the five benefits of giving."
"One who gives is dear, following the Teaching of the virtuous;
The peaceful always associate with him, the restrained practitioners of the holy life.
"They expound the Teaching to him, the dispelling of all suffering;
Having understood that Teaching here, he attains final nibbāna without mental corruptions." The fifth.