諸經要集 9.39

9.39

Another ghost said: 'I constantly go to the latrine wanting to eat excrement, but a large troop of ghosts wielding sticks drive me away, so that I cannot approach the privy. My mouth is rotten and foul, and I am starved, distressed, and without recourse. Why is it like this?' Maudgalyāyana replied: 'In your former life, you were a monastery warden. There were laypeople who made offerings to the Saṃgha and prepared food vessels, but you served the coarse provisions to visiting monks while eating the fine food yourself. Therefore you suffer this pain.'