6.
The Discourse on Sharing with the Gods
1032.
"Monks, the gods, delighted, speak of one endowed with four qualities as being of the same division.
With which four?
Here, monks, a noble disciple is endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha:
'Thus indeed is the Blessed One, etc.
Teacher of gods and humans, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One.'
Those deities who, endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha, having passed away from here, were reborn there - for them it is thus:
'With whatever kind of unwavering confidence in the Buddha we were endowed, having passed away from there, we were reborn here; the noble disciple too, endowed with such unwavering confidence in the Buddha, will come near to the gods.'
"Furthermore, monks, a noble disciple towards the Teaching, etc. towards the Community, etc. He is endowed with morality pleasing to the noble ones, unbroken... etc. conducive to concentration. Those deities who, endowed with morality pleasing to the noble ones, having passed away from here, were reborn there - for them it is thus: 'With whatever kind of morality pleasing to the noble ones we were endowed, having passed away from there, we were reborn here; the noble disciple too, endowed with such morality pleasing to the noble ones, will come near to the gods.' Monks, the gods, delighted, speak of one endowed with these four qualities as being of the same division." The sixth.