2.
The Discourse on the Hook
158.
He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
"Severe, monks, is material gain, honour and fame, painful, harsh, forming an impediment to the achievement of the unsurpassed freedom from bondage.
Just as, monks, a fisherman might throw a baited hook into a deep lake.
A certain fish with an eye for bait might swallow it.
Thus indeed, monks, that fish having swallowed the hook has fallen into calamity, fallen into disaster, subject to be done with as wished by the fisherman."
"'Fisherman', monks, this is a designation for Māra the Evil One. 'Hook', monks, this is a designation for material gain, honour and fame. Whoever indeed, monks, a monk enjoys and desires arisen material gain, honour and fame, this is called, monks, a monk who has swallowed the hook of Māra, fallen into calamity, fallen into disaster, subject to be done with as wished by the Evil One. Thus severe, monks, is material gain, honour and fame, painful, harsh, forming an impediment to the achievement of the unsurpassed freedom from bondage. Therefore, monks, you should train thus - 'We will abandon arisen material gain, honour and fame, and arisen material gain, honour and fame will not remain obsessing our mind.' Thus indeed, monks, should you train." The second.