With matted hair and garb of skin
Why ape th' ascetic's piety?
A saint without, thy heart within
Is choked with foul impurity .

[482] In this wise did the Bodhisatta expose the wicked ascetic, after which he retired into his ant-hill. And the wicked ascetic departed from that place.

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His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "The hypocrite was the wicked ascetic of those days, Sariputta the good ascetic who lived in the hermitage before him, and I myself the lizard."

Footnotes

^297:1 Apparently No. . Cf. No. 325.

^297:2 Cf. <page 303>.

^298:1 Dhammapada v. 394.

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