sn55.42:5.1 There are places where the great rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—join together and converge.
sn55.42:5.2 It’s not easy to count how much water is in such places by saying
sn55.42:5.3 how many gallons, how many hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of gallons there are.
sn55.42:5.4 It’s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of water.
sn55.42:5.5 In the same way, when a noble disciple has these four kinds of overflowing merit and goodness, it’s not easy to count how much merit they have by saying that
sn55.42:5.6 this is the extent of their overflowing merit, overflowing goodness that nurtures happiness.
sn55.42:5.7 It’s simply reckoned as an incalculable, immeasurable, great mass of merit.”
sn55.42:5.8 That is what the Buddha said.
sn55.42:5.9 Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: