Dighanikaya 5.342

5.342

Tisso vidhā desesīti tīṇi ṭhapanāni desesi. So kira cintesi – ‘‘dānaṃ dadamānā nāma tiṇṇaṃ ṭhānānaṃ aññatarasmiṃ calanti handāhaṃ imaṃ rājānaṃ tesu ṭhānesu paṭhamataraññeva niccalaṃ karomī’’ti. Tenassa tisso vidhā desesīti. So bhoto raññoti idaṃ karaṇatthe sāmivacanaṃ. Bhotā raññāti vā pāṭho. Vippaṭisāro na karaṇīyoti ‘‘bhogānaṃ vigamahetuko pacchānutāpo na kattabbo, pubbacetanā pana acalā patiṭṭhapetabbā, evañhi dānaṃ mahapphalaṃ hotī’’ti dasseti. Itaresupi dvīsu ṭhānesu eseva nayo. Muñcacetanāpi hi pacchāsamanussaraṇacetanā ca niccalāva kātabbā. Tathā akarontassa dānaṃ na mahapphalaṃ hoti, nāpi uḷāresu bhogesu cittaṃ namati, mahāroruvaṃ upapannassa seṭṭhigahapatino viya.

"He taught three modes": he taught three preparations. For he thought: 'Those who give gifts waver in one of three points. Come, let me make this king unshakeable in those points beforehand.' Therefore, he taught him three modes. "For the venerable king": this is a genitive case in an instrumental sense. Alternatively, the reading is 'by the venerable king'. "Regret should not be made": he shows, 'Remorse caused by the departure of wealth should not be made, but the preliminary volition should be established unshakeable; for thus a gift is of great fruit.' In the other two points also, this very method applies. For the volition of relinquishing and the volition of recollecting afterwards must also be made unshakeable. For one who does not act thus, the gift is not of great fruit, nor does the mind incline toward magnificent possessions, like the merchant householder who was reborn in the Great Roruva hell.