法苑珠林 48.14

48.14

As the Saṃyuktāgama states: At that time there was a certain monk dwelling among men in a forest in the kingdom of Kośala. At that time, this monk suffered from an eye ailment, and received instructions from his master: "You should smell padma flowers." Having received the master's instruction, the monk went to the edge of a padma pool, sat upwind on the pool's bank, and caught the fragrance drifting with the wind. Then a deity presiding over the pool said to the monk, "Why are you stealing the flowers? You are a fragrance-thief!"