“Mendicants, a mendicant who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks. What five?
- They’re expelled, cut off, shut out;
- or they commit a corrupt offense;
- or they contract a severe illness.
- They feel lost when they die.
- And when their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
A mendicant who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks.”
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