The seventh book of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Collection of the Numbered Discourses of the Buddha, collects 1124 suttas or discourses whose themes are centered on groups of seven topics. This book contains suttas to be read, long suttas with expositions, some of them interesting. This book is devoid of false suttas. The thread of the rulers resurfaces in two versions, the traditional one in which they are compared to bandits, fires and floods, as in AN 7.7 Con Ugga, and a more worrying variation: in AN 7.53 Mother of Nanda, the rulers they appear as kidnappers and murderers of his son. In the featured suttas section, this time we find more. To highlight the AN 7.19: Nibbāna. The different final ways to go extinct are explained here. The AN 7.24 which denounces the work of the bhikkhus as the first cause of decline. The AN 7.44 that explains the different planes of consciousness. The aforementioned AN 7.53, where a laywoman reaches the final achievement. The AN 7.66 The Seven Suns, an interesting planetary cosmogony. The AN 7.92 A Worthy, in which any type of rite or ceremony is qualified as an erroneous belief, as capable of liberating from Samsara. In summary, this time the arduous and exhaustive research and reconstruction work in comparative linguistics seems to provide some interesting information.
The Book of Seven - Aṅguttara Nikāya
Aṅguttara Nikāya