Worshipful

Bhikkhus, the bhikkhu endowed with these ten things is suitable for, revering, hospitality, gifts and worshipful with clasped hands the incomparable field of merit for the world. What ten?

Here, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu is virtuous restrained in the higher code of rules seeing fear in the slightest fault.

Is learned, bearing and accumulating the Teaching good at the beginning, middle and end, full of meanings even in the letters and declaring the pure and complete holy life. That Teaching he bears in the mind, recites and experiences with the mind and straightens his view.

Becomes a spiritual friend, a good companion promoting good friendship.

He is one of right view endowed with the right vision.

Partakes various psychic fetes -Such as one becoming many, and many becoming one. Appearing and disappears across walls and embankments without an obstruction, as though done in space. Dives in and comes out of earth too as though in water. Goes unbroken on water, as though on earth. Abides cross legged in space as birds small and large do. Even the moon and sun he touches with the hand and wields power as far as the world of Brahma.

With the ear element purified above human hears both sounds heavenly and human, far and near.

Cognizes and knows the minds of other beings. Knows the greedy mind, the not greedy mind, the angry mind, the not angry mind, the deluded mind, the not deluded mind, the cramped mind and the distracted mind, the mind grown great and the mind not grown great, the mind with a compare and the mind without a compare, the concentrated mind and the not concentrated mind, the released mind and the not released mind.

Recollects the manifold previous births. Such as one birth, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births, innumerable forward world cycles of births, innumerable backward world cycles of births and innumerable forward and backward cycles of births. -There I was of such name, clan, disposition, supports, experiencing such pleasant and unpleasant feelings and enjoying such a life span. Disappearing from there was born there with such name, clan, dispossition, supports, experiencing such pleasant and unpleasant feelings and enjoying such a life span. Disappearing from there was born here. Thus with all details the manifold previous births are recalled.

With the heavenly eye purified beyond human sees beings disappearing and appearing in unexalted and exalted states, beautiful and ugly in good and bad states. Sees beings born according to their actions. These good beings endowed with bodily, verbal and mental misbehaviour, blaming noble ones, with wrong view, with the wrong view of actions, after death are born in loss, in decrease, in hell. As for these good beings, endowed with bodily, verbal and mental right behaviour after death are born in a good state, in heaven. Thus with the heavenly eye purified beyond human sees beings disappearing and appearing in unexalted and exalted states, beautiful and ugly in good and bad states. Sees beings born according to their actions.

Destroying desires, the mind released and released through wisdom, in this very life by himself realizing abides.

Bhikkhus, the bhikkhu endowed with these ten things is suitable for, revering, hospitality, gifts and worshipful with clasped hands the incomparable field of merit for the world.