Dighanikaya 31.266

31.266

Iti bhagavā ettakena kathāmaggena evaṃ gahapatiputtassa ariyasāvako catūhi kāraṇehi akusalaṃ pahāya chahi kāraṇehi bhogānaṃ apāyamukhaṃ vajjetvā soḷasa mittāni sevanto gharāvāsaṃ saṇṭhapetvā dārabharaṇaṃ karonto dhammikena ājīvena jīvati, devamanussānañca antare aggikkhandho viya virocatīti vajjanīyadhammavajjanatthaṃ sevitabbadhammasevanatthañca ovādaṃ datvā idāni namassitabbā cha disā dassento kathañca gahapatiputtātiādimāha.

Thus, through this much course of discourse, having given advice to the householder's son so that the noble disciple, abandoning the unwholesome through four reasons, avoiding the ruinous ways to wealth through six reasons, associating with the sixteen friends, establishing a household, maintaining a family, lives by a righteous livelihood and shines among gods and humans like a mass of fire, for the sake of avoiding what should be avoided and practicing what should be practiced, now, showing the six directions that should be revered, he said, “And how, householder's son,” and so forth.