法苑珠林 7.50

7.50

"Then King Yama rebukes him a third time, saying to him: 'You foolish person! When you were formerly a human, how could you not have seen the third divine messenger appear in the world?' He replies: 'Great Deva, I truly did not see it.' The king addresses him again: 'When you were in the human realm, did you not see, whether the body of a woman or the body of a man, upon dying at their appointed time, placed upon a bed and covered with multicolored clothing, carried out of the village, mounted on curtains and canopies with various adornments, surrounded by relatives raising their hands and disheveling their hair, scattering ashes and dirt upon their heads in extreme grief and distress, wailing, weeping, and shouting loudly, beating their breasts in lamentation, choked with grief and pain? Did you see all this or not?' He replies: 'Great Deva, I truly saw it.' Then the king addresses him: 'Foolish person, formerly having seen such things, why did you not reflect: "I too have death and have not yet escaped it. Now I ought to do good so that I may attain great benefit through the long night"?' That person replies: 'Great Deva, I truly did not reflect in this way. Why? Because of heedlessness.' Then the king addresses him: 'Since you were heedless and did not perform wholesome karma, you created this evil yourself. It was not created by others that you receive this fruit of retribution; you yourself must receive it.' Having instructed and rebuked him with these three messengers, he commands that he be taken away. Then the hell-wardens seize the sinner's two feet and two arms, with head downward and feet upward, and hurl him from afar into the various hells."