Dighanikaya 33.316

33.316

‘‘Abhabbo, āvuso, khīṇāsavo bhikkhu sañcicca pāṇa’’ntiādi desanāsīsameva, sotāpannādayopi pana abhabbā. Puthujjanakhīṇāsavānaṃ nindāpasaṃsatthampi evaṃ vuttaṃ. Puthujjano nāma gārayho, mātughātādīnipi karoti. Khīṇāsavo pana pāsaṃso, kunthakipillikaghātādīnipi na karotīti.

‘It is impossible, friend, for a bhikkhu whose taints are destroyed to intentionally [deprive] a living being [of life]’ and so forth is merely the heading of the teaching, but stream-enterers and the others too are incapable [of this]. This was also said for the sake of blaming the ordinary person and praising the one whose taints are destroyed. Indeed, an ordinary person is blameworthy: he commits even such deeds as killing his mother. But one whose taints are destroyed is praiseworthy: he does not commit even such deeds as killing small bugs or ants.