an5.192:6.1 In this context, Doṇa, what is legitimate?
an5.192:6.2 Not by farming, trade, raising cattle, archery, government service, or one of the professions, but solely by living on alms, not scorning the alms bowl.
an5.192:6.3 Having offered the fee to his tutor, he shaves off his hair and beard, dresses in ocher robes, and goes forth from the lay life to homelessness.
an5.192:6.4 Then they meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.
an5.192:6.5 They meditate spreading a heart full of compassion …
an5.192:6.6 rejoicing …
an5.192:6.7 equanimity to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of equanimity to the whole world—abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will.
an5.192:6.8 Having developed these four divine meditations, when the body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a good place, a realm of divinity.
an5.192:6.9 That’s how a brahmin is equal to the Divinity.

