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Bound for Loss

Āpāyikasutta

Hypocrisy leads to downfall.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.113Numbered Discourses 3.113
  • 0.212. Āpāyikavagga12. Bound for Loss

0.3ĀpāyikasuttaBound for Loss

1.1PTS 1.266“Tayome, bhikkhave, āpāyikā nerayikā idamappahāya.“Mendicants, these three are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.1.2Katame tayo?What three?

1.3Yo ca abrahmacārī brahmacāripaṭiñño,Someone who is unchaste, but claims to be chaste;1.4yo ca suddhaṁ brahmacariyaṁ carantaṁ amūlakena abrahmacariyena anuddhaṁseti,someone who makes a groundless accusation of unchastity against a person whose chastity is pure;1.5yo cāyaṁ evaṁvādī evaṁdiṭṭhi: ‘natthi kāmesu doso’ti, so tāya kāmesu pātabyataṁ āpajjati.and someone who has the view, ‘There is nothing wrong with sensual pleasures,’ so they throw themselves into sensual pleasures.

1.6Ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo āpāyikā nerayikā idamappahāyā”ti.These are the three who are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.”

1.7Paṭhamaṁ.