7.
The Discourse on the Mother
186.
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.
Here I, monks, understand a certain person thus, having encompassed his mind with my mind -
'This venerable one would not speak a conscious lie even for the sake of his mother.'
I see him at a later time overpowered by material gain, honour and fame, with mind consumed, speaking a conscious lie.
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 seventh.