6.
The Discourse on Giving
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This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"If, monks, beings knew the result of giving and sharing as I know it, they would not eat without having given, nor would the stain of stinginess remain obsessing their minds. Even if it were their last morsel, their last mouthful, they would not eat without having shared, if there were recipients for them. But because, monks, beings do not thus know the result of giving and sharing as I know it, therefore they eat without having given, and the stain of stinginess remains obsessing their minds." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
The result of sharing, how it is of great fruit,
They would give in proper time to the noble ones, where what is given is of great fruit.
Having passed away from here, from human existence, the donors go to heaven.
They experience the result of sharing, being without stinginess."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The sixth.