Puggalapannatti 2.3.45.4

2.3.45.4

Taṃ kissa hetu?

Here a certain person happens to be greater (than we are) in respect of virtue, concentration, insight. Such a person is to be honoured, served, waited upon. Why? “Because I shall fulfil the body of those precepts which are unfulfilled or I shall learn such and such precepts that I have fulfilled. Or I shall fulfil the branches of concentration which are unfulfilled, or I shall learn this and that branch by insight which I have fulfilled; lastly, because I shall do likewise as to the cultivation of insight”. Therefore such a person, having been honoured, revered, should be served, cultivated, and waited upon.