Dighanikaya 31.244

31.244

Yathā kathaṃ pana, bhanteti so kira taṃ bhagavato vacanaṃ sutvāva cintesi ‘‘yā kira mama pitarā cha disā namassitabbā’’ti vuttā, na kira tā etā, aññā kira ariyasāvakena cha disā namassitabbā. Handāhaṃ ariyasāvakena namassitabbā disāyeva pucchitvā namassāmīti. So tā pucchanto yathā kathaṃ pana, bhantetiādimāha. Tattha yathāti nipātamattaṃ. Kathaṃ panāti idameva pucchāpadaṃ. Kammakilesāti tehi kammehi sattā kilissanti, tasmā kammakilesāti vuccanti. Ṭhānehīti kāraṇehi. Apāyamukhānīti vināsamukhāni. Soti so sotāpanno ariyasāvako. Cuddasa pāpakāpagatoti etehi cuddasahi pāpakehi lāmakehi apagato. Chaddisāpaṭicchādīti cha disā paṭicchādento. Ubholokavijayāyāti ubhinnaṃ idhalokaparalokānaṃ vijinanatthāya. Ayañceva loko āraddho hotīti evarūpassa hi idha loke pañca verāni na honti, tenassa ayañceva loko āraddho hoti paritosito ceva nipphādito ca. Paralokepi pañca verāni na honti, tenassa paro ca loko ārādhito hoti. Tasmā so kāyassa bhedā parammaraṇā sugatiṃ saggaṃ lokaṃ upapajjati.

"How then, venerable sir?": he, it is said, having heard that statement of the Blessed One, immediately thought: "Those six directions which my father said were to be worshipped are not, it seems, these ones; it is, it seems, another six directions that are to be worshipped by a noble disciple. Come, having asked about the very directions to be worshipped by a noble disciple, I will worship them." Inquiring about them, he said: "How then, venerable sir?" and so forth. In that passage, "how" is merely a particle. "How then?" is this very interrogative word. "Defilements of action": by those actions beings are defiled, therefore they are called defilements of action. "From the grounds": from the causes. "Openings to ruin": paths to destruction. "He": that stream-enterer, the noble disciple. "Removed from the fourteen evils": departed from these fourteen evil, wretched things. "One who covers the six directions": covering the six directions. "For victory in both worlds": for the sake of conquering both, this world and the world beyond. "This world is won by him": for one of such a nature, the five enmities do not exist in this world, and thereby this world is won by him, both gratified and accomplished. In the world beyond too, the five enmities do not exist, and thereby the other world is won by him. Therefore, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in a good destination, in a heavenly world.