"These sinners bring forth sin, to hell they go
At dissolution of this mortal frame.
[313] Because the misery of lust they know
Therefore saints praise not lust, but only blame."

When Sakka had heard the Great Being's explanation, much moved in heart he repeated the following stanza:

"Myself to test these sages stole away
That food, which by the lake-side I did lay.
Sages they are indeed and pure and good.
O man of holy life, behold thy food!"

Hearing which the Bodhisatta recited a stanza:

"We are no tumblers, to make sport for thee,
No kinsmen nor no friends of thine are we.
Then why, O king divine, O thousand-eyed,
Thinkst thou the sages must thy sport provide?"

And Sakka recited the twentieth stanza, making his peace with him:

"Thou art my teacher, and my father thou,
From my offence let this protect me now.
Forgive me my one error, O wise sage!
They who are wise are never fierce in rage."

[314] Then the Great Being forgave Sakka, king of the gods, and on his own part to reconcile him with the company of sages recited another stanza:

"Happy for holy men one night has been,
When the Lord Vasava by us was seen.
And, sirs, be happy all in heart to see
The food once stolen now restored to me."

Sakka saluted the company of sages, and returned to the world of gods. And they caused the mystic trance and the transcendent faculties to spring up within them, and became destined for Brahma's world.

When the Master had ended this discourse, he said, "Thus, Brethren, wise men of old made an oath and renounced sin." This said, he declared the Truths. At the conclusion of the Truths, the backsliding brother was established in the fruit of the First Path. Identifying the Birth, he recited three stanzas:

"Sariputta, Moggallana, Punna, Kassapa, and I,
Anuruddha and Ananda then the seven brothers were.

"Uppalavanna was the sister, and Khujjuttara the maid,
Satagira was the spirit, Citta householder the slave,

"The elephant was Parileyya, Madhuvasettha was the ape,
Kaludayi then was Sakka. Now you understand the Birth."

Footnotes

^192:1 No. 531: vol. v. p. 279 (Pali).

^192:2 Of sense, of body, without body or form (in the kama-, rupa-, arupa-loka).

^193:1 Or "it is to remind me respectfully of this that he provides no share for me."

^194:1 The meaning is, that a man whose heart is set on these things feels pain to part with them, and is hence unfit to die from a Buddhist point of view. The verse is therefore a curse.

^195:1 Vasava.

^195:2 The scholiast explains this as: populous, rich in grain, in wood, in water. This verse is said by the friendly ascetic.

^195:3 Spoken by the slave man.