Dighanikaya 21.357_4

21.357_4

Apica āvāsamacchariyena lohagehe paccati. Kulamacchariyena appalābho hoti. Lābhamacchariyena gūthaniraye nibbattati. Vaṇṇamacchariyena bhave nibbattassa vaṇṇo nāma na hoti. Dhammamacchariyena kukkuḷaniraye nibbattati. Idaṃ pana issāmacchariyasaṃyojanaṃ sotāpattimaggena pahīyati. Yāva taṃ nappahīyati, tāva devamanussā averatādīni patthayantāpi verādīhi na parimuccantiyeva.

Moreover, through stinginess regarding dwellings, one cooks in a metal house. Through stinginess regarding families, one is of little gain. Through stinginess regarding gains, one is reborn in the excrement hell. Through stinginess regarding praise, having been reborn in a state of existence, one has no beauty at all. Through stinginess regarding the Dhamma, one is reborn in the hot embers hell. But this fetter of envy and stinginess is abandoned by the path of stream-entry. So long as it is not abandoned, devas and humans, even while wishing for freedom from enmity and so forth, are not released from enmity and the like.