Tat kim manyase Subhute yah kascit kulaputro va kuladuhita vemam trisahasramahasahasram lokadhatum sapta-ratna-paripurnam krtva Tathagatebhyo'rhadbhyah samyaksambuddhebhyo danam dadyat, api nu sa kulaputro va kuladuhita va tato nidanam bahu punya-skandham prasunuyat? Subhutir aha: Bahu Bhagavan, bahu Sugata. Bhagavan aha: Evam etat Subhute evam etat, bahu sa kulaputro va kuladuhita va tato nidanam punyaskandham prasunuyad. Tat kasya hetoh? Punya-skandhah punya-skandha iti Subhute a-skandhah sa Tathagatena bhasitah. Tenocyate punya-skandha iti. Sacet Subhute punya-skandho'bhavisyan, na Tathagato'bhasisyat punya-skandhah punya-skandha iti.
What do you think, Subhuti, if a son or daughter of good family had filled this world system of 1,000 million worlds with the seven precious things, and then gave it as a gift to the Tathagatas, the Arhats, the fully Enlightened Ones, would they on the strength of that beget a great heap of merit? Subhuti replied: they would, O Lord, they would, O Well-Gone! The Lord said: So it is, Subhuti, so it is. On the strength of that this son or daughter of good family would beget a great heap of merit, immeasurable and incalculable. But if, on the other hand, there were such a thing as a heap of merit, the Tathagata would not have spoken of a 'heap of merit'.

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