← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN55.34Connected Discourses 55.34SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 55.344. Overflowing MeritFootprints of the Gods (1st)At Sāvatthī.“Mendicants, these four footprints of the gods are in order to purify unpurified beings and cleanse unclean beings.What four?Firstly, a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …This is the first footprint of the gods in order to purify unpurified beings and cleanse unclean beings.Furthermore, a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the teaching …the Saṅgha …Furthermore, a noble disciple’s ethical conduct is loved by the noble ones, unbroken, impeccable, spotless, and unmarred, liberating, praised by sensible people, not mistaken, and leading to immersion.This is the fourth footprint of the gods in order to purify unpurified beings and cleanse unclean beings.These four footprints of the gods are in order to purify unpurified beings and cleanse unclean beings.”