[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 37.19 # 經律異相 37.19 經律異相 37.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [37.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37.19) 有清信士。持戒精進不懈。有一沙門已棄重擔。生死永盡逮得神通。與共親友。時清信士卒得困疾。醫藥不治婦大悲苦。謂其夫言。共為夫婦卿獨受苦。以何方便分病令輕。設卿無常我何所依。兒子孤單復何恃怙。夫聞益懷愛戀。大命將至應時即死。魂神即還在婦鼻中。化作一蟲。婦大啼哭不能自止。時道人往與婦相見。故欲諫喻令捐愁憂。婦見道人來益用悲慟。奈何和上夫婿已死。蟲從鼻涕忽然墮地。婦即慚愧欲以脚踏。道人告曰。止止莫殺。是卿夫婿化作此蟲。婦曰道人。我夫奉經持戒精進難及。何緣壽終轉形作此。道人答曰。過起愛戀今生為蟲。道人為蟲說經。卿精進奉經持戒福應生天見諸佛。但坐恩愛戀慕之想。墮此蟲中。即可慚愧。蟲聞意解。便自剋責。俄而命終。即得生天（出居士物故為婦鼻中蟲經）。 > There was an upāsaka who upheld the precepts diligently without remiss. There was a śramaṇa who had laid down his heavy burden, forever ended birth and death, and attained supernatural powers; he was a close friend \[of the upāsaka\]. Then the upāsaka suddenly contracted a grave illness which medicines could not cure. His wife was in great sorrow and anguish, and said to her husband, "Together we are husband and wife, yet you suffer alone. By what means might I share your illness to make it lighter? If you should pass away, whom can I rely on? Our child is left solitary—whom can he depend upon?" Hearing this, the husband felt an even deeper attachment and yearning. As the end of his life approached, he died at that very moment. His conscious spirit immediately returned and was situated within his wife's nose, transformed into a worm. The wife wept aloud, unable to stop herself. At that time the man of the Dao went to meet with the wife, purposely wishing to advise and admonish her to cast aside her grief and sorrow. Seeing the man of the Dao arrive, the wife grieved all the more bitterly: "What can be done, Upādhyāya? My husband has died!" Suddenly, the worm fell to the ground from her nasal mucus. Ashamed, the wife was about to step on it with her foot. The man of the Dao told her, saying, "Stop, stop! Do not kill it! This is your husband, transformed into this worm." The wife said to the man of the Dao, "My husband revered the scriptures and upheld the precepts with diligence that was hard to match. By what cause, at the end of his life, did his form change into this?" The man of the Dao answered, saying, "Due to the fault of arousing mutual longing and attachment, he has now been born as a worm." The man of the Dao preached the scriptures for the worm: "You diligently revered the scriptures and upheld the precepts; by your merit you ought to have been born in heaven to see all the Buddhas. But solely on account of thoughts of passionate love and yearning, you have fallen among these worms. You should feel ashamed at once!" Hearing this, the worm understood and reproached itself. Shortly thereafter its life came to an end, and it immediately attained rebirth in heaven. (Extracted from the Sūtra on the Householder Deceased and Becoming a Worm in His Wife's Nose.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 37.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37.18) - [Next: 37.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37.20) - [Up: 37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.37.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.37.19) · Pramāṇa