Itivuttaka 70

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70. Micchaditthikasuttam (Outcome Wrong Conduct)

This was said by the Lord Buddha(Bhagavata), said by the Arahant, so I have heard:

“Monks, I have seen beings who—endowed with bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct; who reviled noble(aria) ones, held wrong views and undertook actions under the influence of wrong views—at the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell. It is not from having heard this from another ascetic(monk)or brahman that I tell you that I have seen beings who—endowed with bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct; who reviled noble ones, held wrong views and undertook actions under the influence of wrong views at the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm, hell. It is from having known it myself, seen it myself, realized it myself that I tell you that I have seen beings who—endowed with bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, & mental misconduct; who reviled noble ones, held wrong views and undertook actions under the influence of wrong views—at the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm, hell.”

With mind wrongly directed, speaking wrong speech, doing wrong deeds with the body: a person here of next-to-nothing learning, a doer of evil here in this next-to-nothing life, at the break-up of the body, undiscerning, reappears in hell.