← Aṅguttara NikāyaAN4.4Numbered Discourses 4.4SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Numbered Discourses 4.41. At Wares VillageBroken (2nd)“When a foolish, incompetent untrue person acts wrongly toward four people they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness.What four?Mother …father … a Realized One … and a disciple of a Realized One.When a foolish, incompetent untrue person acts wrongly toward these four people they keep themselves broken and damaged. They deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much wickedness.When an astute, competent true person acts rightly toward four people they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit.What four?Mother …father … a Realized One … and a disciple of a Realized One.When an astute, competent true person acts rightly toward these four people they keep themselves intact and unscathed. They don’t deserve to be blamed and criticized by sensible people, and they create much merit.A person who does wrongby their mother or father,or a Realized One, a Buddha,or one of their disciples,creates much wickedness.Because of their unprincipled conducttoward their parents,they’re criticized in this life by the astute,and they depart to be reborn in a place of loss.A person who does rightby their mother and father,or a Realized One, a Buddha,or one of their disciples,creates much merit.Because of their principled conducttoward their parents,they’re praised in this life by the astute,and they depart to rejoice in heaven.”