大方便佛報恩經 3.55

3.55

佛告阿難及諸大眾：「汝等善聽！當為汝說。阿難！乃往過去無量千劫，爾時有佛出興于世。教化已周，遷神涅槃。滅度之後，於像法中有一婆羅門，造立僧房，供養眾僧。時有檀越多送酥油，時有客比丘來。爾時知事維那心生瞋恚，嫌客僧來多，隱匿酥油，停持不與。客眾僧言：『何不付酥油蜜耶？』維那答言：『汝客我舊。』客比丘言：『此是檀越施現前僧。』爾時維那兇惡可畏，即便罵詈：『汝何不噉屎尿也！云何從我乃索酥油。』以此惡言，從是已來九十億劫，常生於是洸水之中。爾時維那者，今此洸水中虫，是由過去世發一惡言，訶罵眾僧，無量千世住此屎中。」

The Buddha told Ānanda and the great assembly: “Listen carefully! I shall explain it for you. Ānanda! Immeasurable thousands of kalpas ago in the past, there was a buddha who appeared in the world. When his teaching and transforming [of beings] was complete, his spirit departed into nirvāṇa. After his parinirvāṇa, in the semblance dharma age, there was a brāhmaṇa who built a monastery and made offerings to the saṃgha. At that time a dānapati sent much ghee, and visiting bhikṣus happened to arrive. Then the duty-distributor (karmadāna) gave rise to anger; disliking the arrival of so many guest monks, he concealed the ghee, withholding it and not giving it to them. The visiting saṃgha said: ‘Why do you not give us the ghee and honey?’ The karmadāna replied: ‘You are guests; I am the resident.’ The guest bhikṣus said: ‘This was given by the dānapati to the saṃgha present here.’ At that time the karmadāna was fierce and terrifying, and he immediately reviled them: ‘Why do you not eat feces and urine?! Why do you demand ghee from me?’ Because of these harsh words, from that time onward for ninety billion kalpas, he has constantly been born in this filthy water. The karmadāna of that time is now this insect in the filthy water; because in a past life he uttered a single harsh word, rebuking and reviling the saṃgha, for immeasurable thousands of lifetimes he has dwelt in this feces.”