message-of-velama-sutta_jootla.md

title	authors	external_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	olid	oclc	publisher	series	number	pages
The Message of the Velāma Sutta	jootla	https://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh372_Jootla_Message-of-the-Velama-Sutta.html	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b_kNuBqPwMV7uQfh2N5zMI-6b7Gd5Gpt/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iK8kfNp2ttz90eOe6iMiDKTOEMMaIqCa/view?usp=drivesdk	karma	meditation brahmavihara	1990	OL51160321M	33109213	bps	wheel	372	38

In the Velāma Sutta, the Buddha provides us with a vivid outline of the relative degrees of merit that can be acquired by performing different kinds of good actions.

In this translation and introduction to the Velāma Sutta (AN 9.20), the author brings out the salient message of the sutta, which is to perform good deeds. However, it is pointed out that the Buddha sees developing concentration and meditating on loving-kindness and impermenance as the best sources of merit since they lead to liberation.