經律異相 46.51

46.51

Another ghost said, "I constantly rush toward the privy wishing to eat excrement, but a large crowd of ghosts holding staves drive me away so that I cannot approach the latrine. Inside, I am rotting and foul, starving, destitute, and helpless. Why is this?" Maudgalyāyana replied, "In your former life, you were the master of a Buddhist monastery (stūpa-vihāra). When laypeople made offerings to the Saṅgha and prepared food utensils, you served the coarse offerings to visiting monks and ate the fine ones yourself."