Aṅguttara Nikāya
XI. Ekā-Dasaka Nipāta
I. Nissāya

XI. The Book of the Elevens

I. Dependence

Sutta 6

Disaster (b)¹

 

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[201]

"Monks, if any monk abuses and reviles,
rails at the Ariyans
who are his fellows in the Brahma-life,
it is utterly impossible,
it is unavoidable
that he should not come
to one or other
of eleven disasters.

 

§

 

What eleven?

[202] [1] He fails to attain the unattained;
[2] from what he has attained he falls away;
[3] true dhamma is not made clear for him;
[4] or else he is conceited about true dhammas;
[5] or he follows the Brahma life without delight therein;
[6] or commits some foul offence;
[318] [7] or gives up the training and falls back to the low life;²
[8] or he falls into some grievous sickness;
[9] or goes out of his mind with distraction;
[10] he makes an end with mind confused
[11] and when body breaks up, beyond death,
rises up again in the Waste,
the Ill-born,
the Downfall,
in Purgatory.

 

§

 

Monks, if any monk abuses and reviles,
rails at the Ariyans
who are his fellows in the Brahma-life,
it is utterly impossible,
it is unavoidable
that he should not come
to one or other
of these eleven disasters."

 

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¹ At § 88 this sutta occurs with ten results.

² This item is inserted to make eleven.