Apaṇṇakasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 13 · Section 117

[117] Therein, householders, a wise person reflects thus: 'If indeed there is no cause, then this good individual, with the breakup of the body, after death, will have made himself safe. But if there is a cause, then this good individual, with the breakup of the body, after death, will be reborn in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, a place of ruin, hell. Now, granted that there be no cause — let the word of those honorable ascetics and brahmins be true — still this good individual is, in this very life, censurable by the wise as an immoral individual, one of wrong view, a proponent of non-causality (ahetukavāda).' But if there indeed is a cause, then for this good individual there is a losing throw (kaliggāha) on both counts: in this very life he is censured by the wise, and with the breakup of the body, after death, he will be reborn in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, a place of ruin, hell. Thus this incontrovertible teaching (apaṇṇaka dhamma), wrongly grasped and wrongly undertaken by him, extends to cover only one side and leaves out the wholesome position.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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