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The Second Discourse on Those Worthy of Gifts
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"Monks, a monk possessed of six qualities is worthy of offerings, etc.
an unsurpassed field of merit for the world.
With which six?
Here, monks, a monk experiences the various kinds of supernormal power -
having been one, he becomes many; having been many, he becomes one;
appearing and vanishing;
he goes unhindered through walls, through ramparts, through mountains, just as through space;
he dives in and out of the earth just as in water;
he goes on water without breaking it just as on earth;
he travels cross-legged through space just as a winged bird;
he fondles and strokes with his hand even the moon and sun, so mighty and powerful;
He exercises mastery with his body even as far as the Brahma world.
"With the divine ear element, purified and surpassing the human, he hears both sounds - divine and human, whether far or near.
"He understands the minds of other beings, of other persons, having encompassed them with his own mind. He understands a mind with lust as 'a mind with lust', a mind without lust, etc. a mind with hate, a mind without hate, a mind with delusion, a mind without delusion, a contracted mind, a distracted mind, an exalted mind, a not exalted mind, a surpassed mind, an unsurpassed mind, a concentrated mind, an unconcentrated mind, a liberated mind, he understands an unliberated mind as 'an unliberated mind'.
"He recollects manifold past lives, as follows - one birth, two births, etc. Thus with aspects and terms he recollects manifold past lives.
"With the divine eye, which is pure and surpasses the human, he sees beings passing away and arising, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate, and he understands beings according to their actions - 'These beings indeed, sirs, endowed with bodily misconduct, endowed with verbal misconduct, endowed with mental misconduct, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong views, undertaking actions based on wrong views, upon the body's collapse at death, they have arisen in a realm of misery, an unfortunate realm, a nether world, in hell. But these beings, sirs, endowed with bodily good conduct, endowed with verbal good conduct, endowed with mental good conduct, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right views, undertaking actions based on right views, upon the body's collapse at death, they have arisen in a fortunate realm, in a heavenly world.' Thus with the divine eye, which is pure and surpasses the human, he sees beings passing away and arising, inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate, and he understands beings according to their actions.
With the elimination of the mental corruptions, in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge himself, having attained, he dwells in the liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom that are without mental corruptions.
"Monks, a monk possessed of these six qualities is worthy of offerings, etc. an unsurpassed field of merit for the world." The second.