With Pāyāsi 10
With Pāyāsi 10
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“Even though the worthy Kassapa says this, still I think that
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there is no afterlife.”
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“Can you prove it?”
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“I can.”
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“How, exactly, chieftain?”
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“Well, I have friends and colleagues, relatives and kin who refrain from killing living creatures and so on.
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Some time later they become sick, suffering, gravely ill.
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When I know that
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they will not recover from their illness, I go to them and say,
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‘Worthy sir, there are some ascetics and brahmins who have this doctrine and view:
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“Those who refrain from killing living creatures and so on are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm, in the company of the gods of the thirty-three.”
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You do all these things.
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If what those ascetics and brahmins say is true, when your body breaks up, after death, you’ll be reborn in the company of the gods of the thirty-three.
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If that happens, worthy sir, come and tell me that
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there is an afterlife.
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I trust you and believe you. Anything you see will be just as if I’ve seen it for myself.’
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They agree to this. But they don’t come back to tell me, nor do they send a messenger.
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This is how I prove that
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there is no afterlife.”
Translations (2)
- Razgovor sa Pāyāsijem — sr
- Mit Pāyāsi — German
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
Linked texts (1)
- Pāyāsisutta — Pāli