AN5.88 — Therasutta
Disciples, a senior disciple endowed with five qualities is practicing for the harm, discomfort, and suffering of many people, for the harm and suffering of devas and humans.
What five?
He is a senior disciple, long gone forth;
He is well-known, famous, with a large following of householders and renunciants;
He is a recipient of robes, alms food, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick;
He is learned, a bearer of the teachings, a hoarder of the teachings, those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end, with the right meaning and phrasing, which proclaim the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life.
Such teachings are well-learned by him, remembered, recited verbally, mentally examined, and penetrated by view;
He has wrong view, a distorted perspective, and he establishes many people in what is not the true teaching, removing them from the true teaching.
A senior disciple who is long gone forth, thus they follow his view; a well-known senior disciple, famous, with a large following of householders and renunciants, thus they follow his view; a recipient of robes, alms food, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick, thus they follow his view; a learned senior disciple, a bearer of the teachings, a hoarder of the teachings, thus they follow his view.
Disciples, a senior disciple endowed with these five qualities is practicing for the harm, discomfort, and suffering of many people, for the harm and suffering of devas and humans.
Disciples, a senior disciple endowed with five qualities is practicing for the welfare, happiness, and benefit of many people, for the welfare and happiness of devas and humans.
What five?
He is a senior disciple, long gone forth;
He is well-known, famous, with a large following of householders and renunciants;
He is a recipient of robes, alms food, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick;
He is learned, a bearer of the teachings, a hoarder of the teachings, those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end, with the right meaning and phrasing, which proclaim the perfectly complete and pure spiritual life.
Such teachings are well-learned by him, remembered, recited verbally, mentally examined, and well-penetrated by view;
He has right view, an undistorted perspective, and he establishes many people in the true teaching, removing them from what is not the true teaching.
A senior disciple who is long gone forth, thus they follow his view; a well-known senior disciple, famous, with a large following of householders and renunciants, thus they follow his view; a recipient of robes, alms food, lodgings, and medicinal requisites for the sick, thus they follow his view; a learned senior disciple, a bearer of the teachings, a hoarder of the teachings, thus they follow his view.
Disciples, a senior disciple endowed with these five qualities is practicing for the welfare, happiness, and benefit of many people, for the welfare and happiness of devas and humans.