9.
The Discourse on Food
59.
"Monks, a donor giving food gives four things to the recipients.
What are the four?
She gives life, she gives beauty, she gives happiness, she gives strength.
Having given life, he becomes a partaker of life, whether divine or human.
Having given beauty, etc.
Having given happiness, etc.
Having given strength, he becomes a partaker of strength, whether divine or human.
Monks, a donor giving food gives these four things to the recipients."
"He who to the restrained, to those who live on what others give,
At the proper time, attentively, gives food;
He bestows four things,
Life and beauty and happiness and strength.
"That man, a giver of life, a giver of beauty, giving happiness and strength;
He becomes long-lived and glorious, wherever he is reborn." The ninth.