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In the morning, the long-lived Ananda entered into Rajagrha to beg food. When Devadatta saw him, he called him. He said to Ananda,
"Abusa Ananda ! From this day, I shall perform upa - satha outside the Buddha's monastic order and fulfil rituals outside the order".
Having finished his begging, Ananda returned and reported to the Buddha,
"Bhante! From this day. Deva datta is separated from our order. He will create a charge in the order today carry on his spiritual practices outside the order. When I went to the city to beg, he himself told me like that".
At this, the Buddha uttered a maxim as follows:
"It is easy to be honest with honest people but honesty is difficult to practise with the sinful. Sin is easy with the sinful, but difficult with the Aryans (honest people)".
It was about this time that 500 Vajjiputtakas had been initiated into monkhood at Vaisali. But they were not familiar with the code to be followed by the monks. One day, when they were practising upasatha, Deva datta said to them,
"Abusa! I placed five rules before Sramana. Gautama for his acceptance, but he declined. But I shall put them into currency. He who is ready to follow them · may pick up a stick".
So saying, he extended the sticks towards the initiates. The initiates thought,
"This is dharma. This is Vinaya. This is the direc-' tion given by the Leader'.
All of them picked up the sticks.
Thus Deva datta created a split in the monastic order
