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BOOK 2, LECTURE 7.
433 those limits, as movable and immovable beings, (&c. the rest as before).” (34)
The Venerable One spoke thus: “It has never happened, it does not happen, nor will it ever happen, that all movable beings will die out and become immovable ones, nor that all immovable beings die out and become movable ones. Since movable and immovable beings never die out, there is no chance, as you or somebody else say, that a layman ceases to do injury altogether by renouncing slaughter of one kind of beings; this interpretation of yours is not right.” (35)
And the Venerable One spoke thus: “If (a man) who has been instructed in right knowledge, faith, and conduct for the avoidance of sins, blames a (righteous) Sramana or Brâhmana though he is well disposed towards them, he effects the loss of his merit for another world; but if he does not blame them, he heightens the purity of his merit for another world."
On this Udaka, the son of Pêdhala, took no further notice of the Venerable Gautama and was about to return in the direction in which he had come. (36)
And the Venerable One spoke thus: “O longlived Udaka, he who has learned from a Sramana or Brâhmana whomsoever even one noble religious truth, and considers himself thereby furthered with regard to his peace and happiness, will respect, acknowledge, praise, salute, honour, reverence, and worship him even as a blessed and holy deity or sacred shrine." (37)
Then Udaka, the son of Pêdhâla, spoke thus to the Venerable Gautama : 'As I had not before
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