sn.1.47 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Planters of Groves

“For whom does merit always increase,
Both by day and by night?
Who are the people going to heaven,
Established in Dhamma, endowed with virtue?”

“Those who set up a park or a grove,
The people who construct a bridge,
A place to drink and a well,
Those who give a residence:

“For them merit always increases,
Both by day and by night;
Those are the people going to heaven,
Established in Dhamma, endowed with virtue.”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh

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Planters

“Whose merit always grows
by day and by night?
Firm in principle, accomplished in conduct,
who is going to heaven?”
“Planters of parks or groves,
those who build a bridge,
a drinking place and well,
and those who give a residence.
Their merit always grows
by day and by night.
Firm in principle, accomplished in conduct,
they are going to heaven.”