The Way Leading to Wealth

Mallikā, and still some woman is not prone to anger or often exasperated. Even if she is criticized a lot, she does not lose her temper and become irritated, hostile, and stubborn; she does not display anger, hatred, and bitterness. And she gives things to Ascetics or Brāhmins: food and drink; clothing and vehicles; garlands, scents, and ointments; bedding, dwellings, and lighting.

When she passes away from that state, if she comes back to this world, wherever she is reborn she is beautiful, attractive, and graceful, possessing supreme beauty of complexion; rich, with great wealth and property; and influential.

This is the way, Student, that leads to wealth, namely, one gives food, drink, clothing, vehicles, garlands, scents, ointments, beds, dwelling, and lamps to Ascetics or Brāhmins.

(Reference: AN 4.197)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares how a Practitioner who “is not prone to anger or often exasperated. Even if she is criticized a lot she does not lose her temper and become irritated, hostile, and stubborn; she does not display anger, hatred, and bitterness” and provides offerings of “food, drink, clothing, vehicles, garlands, scents, ointments, beds, dwelling, and lamps to Ascetics or Brāhmins”, that if there is rebirth they are reborn “beautiful, attractive, and graceful, possessing supreme beauty of complexion; rich, with great wealth and property; and influential”.