Numbered Discourses 5.37

4. With Sumanā

Food

“Bhikkhus, when a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. What five? Long life, beauty, happiness, strength, and eloquence.

Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human.

Giving beauty, they have beauty as a god or human.

Giving happiness, they have happiness as a god or human.

Giving strength, they have strength as a god or human.

Giving eloquence, they are eloquent as a god or human.

When a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things.

A wise one is a giver of life, strength, beauty, and eloquence. An intelligent giver of happiness gains happiness in return.

Giving life, strength, beauty, happiness, and eloquence, they’re long-lived and famous wherever they’re reborn.”