2(2)Worthy of Gifts(2)
"Bhikkhus,possessing six qualities,a bhikkhu is worthy of gifts,worthy of hospitality,worthy of offerings,worthy of reverential salutation,an unsurpassed field of merit for the world.
What six?
For details on the first five mundane direct knowledges, see Vism chaps. 12 and 13.(1)"Here,a bhikkhu wields the various kinds of psychic
potency:having been one,he becomes many;having been
many,he becomes one;
he appears and vanishes;
he goes unhindered through a wall,through a rampart,through a mountain
as though through space;
he dives in and out of the earth as
though it were water;
he walks on water without sinking as
though it were earth;
seated crosslegged,he travels in space
like a bird;
with his hand he touches and strokes the moon
and sun so powerful and mighty;
he exercises mastery with the
body as far as the brahmā world.
(2)"With the divine ear element,which is purified and surpasses the human,he hears both kinds of sounds,the divine
and human,those that are far as well as near.
(3)"He understands the minds of other beings and persons,
having encompassed them with his own mind.
He understands
a mind with lust as a mind with lust and a mind without lust
as a mind without lust;a mind with hatred as a mind with
hatred and a mind without hatred as a mind without hatred;a
mind with delusion as a mind with delusion and a mind with-
out delusion as a mind without delusion;a contracted mind
as contracted and a distracted mind as distracted;an exalted
mind as exalted and an unexalted mind as unexalted;a sur-
passable mind as surpassable and an unsurpassable mind as
unsurpassable;a concentrated mind as concentrated and an
unconcentrated mind as unconcentrated;a liberated mind as
liberated and an unliberated mind as unliberated.
(4)"He recollects his manifold past abodes,that is,one birth,two births,three births,four births,five births,ten births,twentybirths,thirty births,forty births,fifty [281]births,a hundred births,a thousand births,a hundred thousand births,manyeons of world-dissolution,many eons of world-evolution,manyeons of world-dissolution and world-evolution thus:'There I was so named,of such a clan,with such an appearance,such was my food,such my experience of pleasure and pain,such mylife span;passing away from there,I was reborn elsewhere,andthere too I was so named,of such a clan,with such an appearance,such was my food,such my experience of pleasure andpain,such my life span;passing away from there,I was reborn here.'
Thus he recollects his manifold past abodes with their aspects and details.
(5)"With the divine eye,which is purified and surpasses the human,he sees beings passing away and being reborn,inferior and superior,beautiful and ugly,fortunate and unfortunate,and he understands how beings fare in accordance with their kamma thus:
'These beings who engaged in misconduct by body,speech,and mind,who reviled the noble ones,held wrong view,and undertook kamma based on wrong view,with the breakup of the body,after death,have been reborn in the plane of misery,in a bad destination,in the lower world,in hell;
but these beings who engaged in good conduct by body,speech,and mind,who did not revile the noble ones,who held right view,and undertook kamma based on right view,with the breakup of the body,after death,have been reborn in a good destination,in a heavenly world.'
Thus with the divine
eye,which is purified and surpasses the human,he sees beings passing away and being reborn,inferior and superior,beautiful and ugly,fortunate and unfortunate,and he understands how beings fare in accordance with their kamma.
(6)"With the destruction of the taints,he has realized for himself with direct knowledge,in this very life,the taintless liberation of mind,liberation by wisdom,and having entered upon it,he dwells in it.
"Possessing these six qualities,a bhikkhu is worthy of gifts,worthy of hospitality,worthy of offerings,worthy of reverential salutation,an unsurpassed field of merit for the world."