{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti48/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti48","id":"suttacentral_iti48","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti48/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, these two are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don\u2019t give up this fault. What two? Someone who is unchaste, but claims to be chaste; and someone who makes a groundless accusation of unchastity against a person whose chastity is pure. These are the two who are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don\u2019t give up this fault.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cA liar goes to hell, as does one who denies what they did. Both are equal in the hereafter, those men of base deeds. Many who wear a scrap of ocher cloth are unrestrained and wicked. Being wicked, they are reborn in hell due to their bad deeds. It\u2019d be better for the immoral and unrestrained to eat an iron ball, scorching, like a burning flame, than to eat the nation\u2019s alms.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"Bound for Loss","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":182}