འཕགས་པ་སྤབས་པའ་བླ་གྲས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11

11

Even to spiritual teachers they are rude and have no love.
To their own wives and servants they give nothing precious,
Nor do they understand how to show love and affection.

“They turn away from what is good, and when they pass on
They become suffering spirits whose bodies burn over and over.
Though they dream for hundreds of years,
They never even dream of clothing, food, and drink.

“Their throats are like needles and their stomachs like huge mountains.
Desperately they scramble from the eastern to the western ocean.
With mouths ablaze they run to Kauverī and to the south.
Seeing everything dried up they fall into a blazing fire.

“The henchmen of the Lord of Death grab them by the shoulders,
Pile them together, and crush them with boulders.
Then they are given molten copper to drink, which is incredibly difficult to bear.
Ignorant, they are made to drink disgusting substances as if they were water with eight qualities.

“After their entrails have been burned from their body cavities by the evacuating wind,
The powerful ones force these beings to drink again.
When these beings die and are reborn in the human world,
They will be inferior in their caste, wealth, health, and servants.”

Then the Blessed One said, “Pratibhānamati, beings who engage in the following five actions are reborn among the higher castes. What are these five? They are (1) giving material goods and Dharma, (2) not having hostility towards anyone, (3) being respectful of the Three Jewels and one’s parents, (4) being naturally patient, gentle, and exalted, and (5) studying the diversity of the Buddha’s teachings and being diligent in their recitation. Pratibhānamati, beings who engage in those five actions are reborn among the higher castes.”

Then the Blessed One expressed this in verse:

“Those who are inspired by the rituals for accumulating merit and fortune,