The Long Āgama Sūtra 15.13

15.13

「善宿白佛言：『彼是羅漢，何緣乃有此嫉恚心？』我時答曰：『愚人！羅漢何緣有嫉恚心？非我羅漢有嫉恚心，汝今自謂彼是羅漢，彼有七苦行，長夜執持。何謂七？一盡形壽不著衣裳。二盡形壽不飲酒食肉，而不食飯及與[麩-夫+少]麵。三盡形壽不犯梵行。四盡形壽毗舍離有四石塔——東名憂園塔、南名象塔、西名多子塔、北名七聚塔；盡形不離四塔，為四苦行，而彼後當犯此七苦行已，於毗舍離城外命終。譬如野干疥癩衰病，死丘塚間，彼尼乾子亦復如是；自為禁法，後盡犯之。本自誓言：盡形不著衣服，後還著衣。本自誓言：盡形壽不飲酒噉肉，不食飯及[麩-夫+少]麵，而後盡食。本自誓言：不犯梵行，而後亦犯。本言：不越四塔——東憂園塔、南象塔、西多子塔、北七聚塔；今盡遠離不復親近。彼人自違此七誓已，出毘舍離城，塚間命終。』佛告善宿曰：『愚人！汝不信我言，汝自往觀，自當知耳。』」

“Sunakṣatra said to me, ‘He was an arhat. What reason was there for him to feel hateful?’

“I then answered, ‘Fool, what reason is there for an arhat to feel hateful? No arhat of mine has hateful feelings. Now, you say yourself, ‘He is an arhat.’ He practices the seven kinds of asceticism, which he has upheld for a long time. What are the seven?

“First, one doesn’t wear clothing for their entire life. Second, one doesn’t drink alcohol, eat meat, or eat rice or wheat flour for their entire life. Third, one doesn’t violate the religious life for their entire life. Fourth [to seventh], one doesn’t go beyond the four shrines of Vaiśālī, which are the eastern stone shrine called Mourning Park, the southern stone shrine called Elephant, the western stone shrine called Many Children, and the northern stone shrine called Seven Copse. They do this their entire life. This makes four ascetic practices. He’ll violate these seven ascetic practices and die while living outside of Vaiśālī.

“‘That Nirgrantha disciple will be like a jackal weakened by a skin disease when he dies on a burial mound in a cemetery. He’ll violate all his own teaching’s rules. He vowed to himself, ‘I won’t wear clothes for my entire life,’ but he’ll return to wearing clothes. He vowed to himself, ‘I won’t drink alcohol, eat meat, or eat rice or wheat flour,’ but he’ll eat all of them. He vowed to himself, ‘I won’t violate the religious life,’ but he’ll violate it. He vowed, ‘I won’t go beyond the four shrines, the eastern Mourning Park shrine, the southern Elephant shrine, the western Many Children shrine, and the northern Seven Copse shrine.’ But far from them and doesn’t stay nearby. That man will contradict his own seven vows, leave the city of Vaiśālī, and his life will end in a cemetery.’

“I told Sunakṣatra, ‘Fool, if you don’t believe what I say, go investigate it and realize it for yourself.’