Aṅguttara Nikāya — Discursos Numerados — 3.31 — With Divinity

1“Mendicants, a family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with divinity. A family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with the first tutors. A family where the children honor their parents in their home is said to live with those worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods.

2‘Divinity’ is a term for your parents.

3‘First tutors’ is a term for your parents.

4‘Worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods’ is a term for your parents.

5Why is that? Parents are very helpful to their children, they raise them, nurture them, and show them the world.

6Parents are said to be ‘divinity’
and ‘first tutors’, it’s said.
They’re worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods <j>from their children,
for they love their offspring.

7Therefore an astute person
would revere them and honor them
with food and drink,
clothes and bedding,
anointing and bathing,
and by washing their feet.

8Because they look after
their parents like this,
in this life they’re praised by the astute,
and they depart to rejoice in heaven.”