[321] 6.
Righteous conduct (dhammacariyā) and the holy life (brahmacariya) —
this they call the supreme treasure.
Yet even if one has gone forth
from home to the homeless life,
if he is scurrilous by nature,
a very beast who delights in doing harm,
his life is the worse for it:
he increases his own dust.
A bhikkhu who delights in quarrels,
shrouded by the quality of delusion (moha),
does not know, even when it is declared to him,
the Dhamma taught by the Buddha.
Harassing those who have developed themselves,
led on by ignorance (avijjā),
he does not know defilement (saṅkilesa),
the path (magga) that leads to hell (niraya).
Fallen into the place of ruin (vinipāta),
going from womb to womb, from darkness to darkness,
such a bhikkhu, truly,
meets with suffering (dukkha) when he has passed away.
Just as a cesspit would be
when brimful with the filling of many years,
even so would one of such a kind be —
for one full of blemish (aṅgaṇa) is hard to cleanse.
Whomever you know to be of such a kind, bhikkhus —
one attached to the household life,
of evil desires (pāpicchā), of evil intentions,
of evil conduct and resort —
all of you, being in concord,
shun him:
sweep him out like refuse,
drag the rubbish away.
Then winnow off the chaff —
non-ascetics who fancy themselves ascetics;
having swept out those of evil desires,
of evil conduct and resort,
being pure, arrange to dwell together with the pure,
ever mindful;
then, in concord and prudent,
you will make an end of suffering.
End of the Dhammacariya Sutta, the sixth.
In the Suttanipāta, the second chapter, the Cūḷavagga: the seventh discourse, the Brāhmaṇadhammika Sutta.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.