A Meal Assigner

“Mendicants, a meal assigner who has four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

What four?

They make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.

A meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.

A meal designator who has four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.

What four?

They make decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.

A meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.

All those people with unbridled sensuality,

unprincipled, with no respect for principle,

led astray <j>by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, or cowardice,

are called ‘an assembly of the dregs’:

that’s what was said by the ascetic who knows.

And so those praiseworthy true persons,

standing on principle, doing nothing wrong,

not led astray <j>by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, or cowardice,

are called ‘an assembly of the cream’:

that’s what was said by the ascetic who knows.”