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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

4: The Book of the Fours

VII. Deeds of Substance — AN 4.66: Greedy

1“Mendicants, these four people are found in the world. What four? The greedy, the hateful, the delusional, and the conceited.

These are the four people found in the world.


2Full of desire for desirable things,
enjoying things that seem pleasant,
beings shrouded by ignorance,
only tighten their bonds.

3Born of greed, born of hate,
born of delusion: the ignorant
make bad karma
that afflicts and produces pain.

4If you act out of these qualities, that’s what you become.
But men hindered by ignorance,
are blind, with no eyes to see,
and they never imagine that this could be so.”

1"Cattārome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ. Katame cattāro? Sarāgo, sadoso, samoho, samāno – 

ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasminti.


2Sārattā rajanīyesu,
Piyarūpābhinandino;
Mohena āvutā sattā,
Baddhā vaḍḍhenti bandhanaṁ.

3Rāgajaṁ dosajañcāpi,
mohajaṁ cāpaviddasū;
Karontākusalaṁ kammaṁ,
savighātaṁ dukhudrayaṁ.

4Avijjānivutā posā,
andhabhūtā acakkhukā;
Yathā dhammā tathā santā,
na tassevanti maññare"ti.

Chaṭṭhaṁ.