“Mendicants, a mendicant who starts arguments, quarrels, disputes, debates, and disciplinary issues in the Saṅgha can expect five drawbacks. What five?
- They don’t achieve the unachieved.
- What they have achieved falls away.
- They get a bad reputation.
- They feel lost when they die.
- And when their body breaks up, after death, they are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
A mendicant who starts arguments, quarrels, disputes, debates, and disciplinary issues in the Saṅgha can expect these five drawbacks.”
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