Numbered Discourses 5.35

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1. Numbered Discourses 5.35
2. 4. With Sumanā
3. The Benefits of Giving
4. “Mendicants, there are five benefits of giving.
5. What five?
6. A giver, a donor is dear and beloved by many people.
7. Good and true persons associate with them.
8. They get a good reputation.
9. They don’t neglect a layperson’s duties.
10. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
11. These are the five benefits of giving.
12. Giving, one is loved,
13. and follows the way of the good.
14. The good, disciplined spiritual practitioners
15. always associate with you.
16. They teach you the Dhamma
17. that dispels all suffering.
18. Having understood this teaching,
19. the undefiled one is fully extinguished.”