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The Discourse on Whatever Direction
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"Monks, a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, possessed of five factors, in whatever direction he dwells, dwells in his own realm.
"Which five? Here, monks, a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, is well-born on both sides, on his mother's side and on his father's side, of pure descent up to the seventh generation of ancestors, unassailed and irreproachable with respect to birth; he is wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions, with full treasuries and storehouses; and he is powerful, endowed with a fourfold army that is loyal and obedient to commands; and his adviser is wise, accomplished, intelligent, competent to think about matters past, future, and present; these four qualities bring his fame to maturity. He, possessed of this quality with fame as the fifth, in whatever direction he dwells, dwells in his own realm. What is the reason for this? For this is so, monks, for the victorious.
"So too, monks, a monk possessed of five qualities, in whatever direction he dwells, dwells with a liberated mind. Which five? Here, monks, a monk is virtuous, he dwells restrained by the restraint of the Pātimokkha, accomplished in good conduct and lawful resort, seeing danger in the slightest faults, having accepted the training rules he trains in them - like a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, accomplished in birth; he is very learned, remembering what has been learnt, having great accumulation of learning; whatever teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end, with meaning and with phrasing, that reveal the holy life that is complete in its entirety and pure - such teachings are very learned by him, retained, practised in speech, contemplated in mind, thoroughly penetrated by view - like a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, wealthy, of great riches, of great possessions, with full treasuries and storehouses; he dwells putting forth strenuous energy for the abandoning of unwholesome mental states and for the acquisition of wholesome mental states, steadfast, of firm effort, not shirking the responsibility regarding wholesome mental states - like a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, accomplished in power; he is wise, endowed with wisdom that discerns rise and fall, noble, penetrative, leading rightly to the complete elimination of suffering - like a head-anointed king of the ruling caste, accomplished in his adviser; these four qualities bring his liberation to maturity. He, possessed of this quality with liberation as the fifth, in whatever direction he dwells, dwells with a liberated mind. What is the reason for this? For this is so, monks, for those with liberated minds." The fourth.