6.
The Discourse on Disaster
6.
"Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is possible, there is the opportunity that he might undergo one of eleven disasters.
Which eleven? He does not attain what has not been attained, he declines from what has been attained, the Good Teaching does not become purified for him, or he has overestimation regarding the Good Teaching, or he lives the holy life without delight, or he commits a certain defiled offence, or having rejected the training, he returns to the lower life, or he experiences a serious illness, or he reaches madness or derangement of the mind, he dies deluded, upon the body's collapse at death he is reborn in a realm of misery, an unfortunate realm, a nether world, in hell - Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is possible, there is the opportunity that he might undergo one of these eleven disasters.
"Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is impossible, there is no opportunity that he would not undergo one of eleven disasters.
Which eleven? He does not attain what has not been attained, he declines from what has been attained, the Good Teaching does not become purified for him, or he has overestimation regarding the Good Teaching, or he lives the holy life without delight, or he commits a certain defiled offence, or having rejected the training, he returns to the lower life, or he experiences a serious illness, or he reaches madness or derangement of the mind, he dies deluded, upon the body's collapse at death he is reborn in a realm of misery, an unfortunate realm, a nether world, in hell - Monks, a monk who reviles and abuses, who slanders noble ones among his fellows in the holy life, this is impossible, there is no opportunity that he would not undergo one of these eleven disasters." The sixth.