Such refuge is a sanctuary,

it is the supreme refuge.

By going to that refuge,

you’re released from all suffering.

It’s hard to find a thoroughbred man:

they’re not born just anywhere.

A family where that attentive one is born

prospers in happiness.

Happy, the arising of Buddhas!

Happy, the teaching of Dhamma!

Happy is the harmony of the Saṅgha,

and the striving of the harmonious is happy.

When a person venerates the worthy—

the Buddha or his disciple,

who have transcended proliferation,

and have left behind grief and lamentation,

quenched, fearing nothing from any quarter—

the merit of one venerating such as these,

cannot be calculated by anyone,

saying it is just this much.

Minor Collection Sayings of the Dhamma 197–208 15. Happiness