Dhammapada 1.7.p2

1.7.p2

Ekasmiñhi samaye dve aggasāvakā pañcasate pañcasate attano attano parivāre ādāya satthāraṃ āpucchitvā vanditvā jetavanato rājagahaṃ agamaṃsu. Rājagahavāsino dvepi tayopi bahūpi ekato hutvā āgantukadānaṃ adaṃsu. Athekadivasaṃ āyasmā sāriputto anumodanaṃ karonto ‘‘upāsakā eko sayaṃ dānaṃ deti, paraṃ na samādapeti, so nibbattanibbattaṭṭhāne bhogasampadaṃ labhati, no parivārasampadaṃ. Eko sayaṃ na deti, paraṃ samādapeti, so nibbattanibbattaṭṭhāne parivārasampadaṃ labhati, no bhogasampadaṃ. Eko sayampi na deti, parampi na samādapeti, so nibbattanibbattaṭṭhāne kañjikamattampi kucchipūraṃ na labhati, anātho hoti nippaccayo. Eko sayampi deti, parampi samādapeti, so nibbattanibbattaṭṭhāne attabhāvasatepi attabhāvasahassepi attabhāvasatasahassepi bhogasampadañceva parivārasampadañca labhatī’’ti evaṃ dhammaṃ desesi.

For on a certain occasion the two Chief Disciples, each with a retinue of five hundred monks, took leave of the Teacher and went from Jetavana to Rājagaha. The residents of Rājagaha united by twos and threes and in larger groups and gave alms in accordance with the custom of giving alms to visitors. Now one day Venerable Sāriputta

said, in making the Address of Thanksgiving, "Lay brethren, one man himself gives alms, but does not urge another to give; that man receives in succeeding states of existence the blessing of wealth, but not the blessing of a retinue. Another man urges his neighbor to give, but does not himself give; that man receives in succeeding states of existence the blessing of a retinue, but not the blessing of wealth. Another man neither himself gives alms nor urges others to give; in succeeding states of existence that man receives not so much as a bellyful of sour rice-gruel, but is forlorn and destitute. Yet another both himself gives alms and urges his neighbor to give; that man in succeeding states of existence, in a hundred states of existence, in a thousand states of existence, in a hundred thousand states of existence, receives both the blessing of wealth and the blessing of a retinue." Thus did Venerable Sāriputta preach the Law.