← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN55.19Connected Discourses 55.19SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 55.192. The Royal MonasteryA Visit to the Gods (2nd)At Sāvatthī.And then Venerable Mahāmoggallāna, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, vanished from Jeta’s Grove and reappeared among the gods of the thirty-three.Then several deities of the company of the thirty-three went up to Venerable Mahāmoggallāna, bowed, and stood to one side. Moggallāna said to them:“Reverends, it’s good to have experiential confidence in the Buddha. …It’s the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, have been reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.It’s good to have experiential confidence in the teaching. …the Saṅgha …and to have the ethical conduct that’s loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.It’s the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, have been reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.”“My good Moggallāna, it’s good to have experiential confidence in the Buddha …It’s the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, have been reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.It’s good to have experiential confidence in the teaching. …the Saṅgha …and to have the ethical conduct that’s loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.It’s the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, have been reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.”