So It Was Said 48

The Book of the Twos

Chapter Two

Bound for Loss

iti48:1 This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

iti48:2 “Mendicants, these two are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault. What two? Someone who is unchaste, but claims to be chaste; and someone who makes a groundless accusation of unchastity against a person whose chastity is pure. These are the two who are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

iti48:3 “A liar goes to hell, as does one who denies what they did. Both are equal in the hereafter, those men of base deeds.

iti48:4 Many who wear a scrap of ocher cloth are unrestrained and wicked. Being wicked, they are sent to hell due to their bad deeds.

iti48:5 It’d be better for the immoral and unrestrained to eat an iron ball, scorching, like a burning flame, than to eat the nation’s alms.”

iti48:6 This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.