Performance of Householder

The performance for householder who wish to build new house

Sunidha and Vassakara chief ministers of Magadha were building a fortress in Pataligama village. Higher, middle, and lower deities occupied the appropriate dwelling for them. The Buddha predicted that the village would become Pataliputta City, a great center for trading, but also 3 kinds of danger hanging over the city. The dangers are fire, flood and dissension/ disunity.

The Buddha accepted the invitation to a meal at a ministers’ residence where he delivered a discourse on instructions for the householder to perform rightly on occupying a new house as follows:

“A prudent man who take up his abode in a certain place

1. Should offer food to monks of self- control.
2. Share the merits to the deities occupying the site.
3. Deities will reciprocate honor/reverence to him.
4. Good fortune will come to him who has the grace of deities.