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KULLAVAGGA.
I, 32, 4.
How can you, O foolish one, so understand the Dhamma preached by me? Have I not, by many a figure, O foolish one, declared the things which are impediments to be impediments, and sufficient to prevent him who cultivates them (from attaining to spiritual gifts)? Have not lusts been by me declared to be of short taste (&c., as above, down to :) like snakes and creeping things, full of danger, full of despair, things wherein the danger is great ? Yet now you, o foolish one, by your having grasped that doctrine wrongly!, are not only bearing false-witness against us, but you are also rooting yourself up, and are giving rise to much demerit, the which will be to you for a long time for an evil and a woe. This will not conduce, O foolish one, either to the conversion of the unconverted, or to the increase of the converted; but rather to those who are unconverted not being converted, and to the turning back of those who have been converted ?'
When he had thus rebuked him, and had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said: 'Let therefore the Samgha, O Bhikkhus, carry out against Arittha the Bhikkhu, who was formerly a vulture tormentor, the Ukkhepaniyakamma for not renouncing a sinful doctrine, to the intent that he shall not eat or dwell together with the Samgha.
4. Now thus, O Bhikkhus, should it be carried out. In the first place the Bhikkhu Arittha ought
1 Compare Mahâ-parinibbâna Sutta IV, 8-11.
Up to this point the whole chapter recurs as the Introductory Story in the Sutta-vibhanga on the 68th Pakittiya.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |