雜譬喻經 1.64

1.64

昔者天竺有一住處有十萬沙門，五萬餘人已得阿羅漢，六通清徹諸漏已盡，餘有五萬人，或有得下三道者或未得者。有一長者欲求人天中福樂自恣，來詣塔廟施設飯食供養眾僧。時有一上坐得六神通大阿羅漢也，其人極老，鬚白齒落形體枯朽，於十萬人中最為上首。為此長者呪願畢，飲食已竟行澡水訖，便語長者言：「檀越！今施方得大罪。」於時會中未得道者皆謂：「上座老故出此狂言耳？」上座答曰：「其事實爾，非狂言也。」眾人問言：「此人種福，云何得罪？」上座答曰：「汝等識其一未識其二。此人種福復受人天中樂，於受樂中大生憍慢，自謂為足，不求解脫，覩佛不奉、見經不讀、見沙門無虔敬之心，放逸自恣，食福既盡，當墮惡道無量阿僧祇劫，罪畢乃出，所以得種大罪者，因受世俗大報故也。若擬心聖道而為此福者，後受報時終無此報也。」

Formerly, in India, there was a dwelling place with one hundred thousand śramaṇas. More than fifty thousand of them had already attained arhatship, their six supernormal powers clear and penetrating and their defilements fully exhausted; the remaining fifty thousand included those who had attained the lower three paths and those who had not yet attained them. There was a śreṣṭhin who wished to seek the bliss of merit among humans and devas to indulge himself; he came to the stūpa-monastery to set out food and drink and make offerings to the saṅgha. At that time there was a senior seat who was a great arhat possessed of the six supernormal powers; this man was extremely old, his beard white, his teeth fallen out, and his body withered and frail, yet he was the foremost head among the one hundred thousand persons. Having concluded the prayer of benediction for this śreṣṭhin, finished the food and drink, and completed the distribution of wash-water, he then said to the śreṣṭhin, “Dānapati! From this present giving you will only obtain great guilt.” At that time, those in the assembly who had not yet attained the Way all thought: “Is it because the senior seat is old that he utters these raving words?” The senior seat replied, “The matter is truly thus; these are not raving words.” The multitude asked, “This man planted merit; how can he obtain guilt?” The senior seat answered, “You know the first part, but not the second. This man plants merit and will again receive bliss among humans and devas; while experiencing this bliss, he will give rise to great arrogance, consider himself sufficient, and not seek liberation. Seeing the Buddha, he will not venerate him; seeing the sūtras, he will not read them; seeing śramaṇas, he will lack a heart of reverence; he will be heedless and self-indulgent. When his enjoyment of merit is exhausted, he will fall into the evil destinies for immeasurable asaṃkhyeya kalpas, emerging only when his guilt is spent. The reason he plants great guilt is because of receiving the great mundane retribution. If he had set his mind on the noble path in creating this merit, when he later received retribution, he would never have had such an outcome.”