iti.70 Itivuttaka

Wrong View

This was said by the Lord…

“Bhikkhus, I have seen beings who practise misconduct by body, speech, and mind, who vilify the noble ones, who hold wrong view and perform various deeds because of their wrong view. When the body perishes, those beings are reborn after death in a state of misery, a bad bourn, a state of ruin, in hell. I say this, bhikkhus, without having learnt it from another recluse or brahmin. It is just because I myself have known it, seen it, and observed it that I say: ‘Bhikkhus, I have seen beings who practise misconduct by body, speech, and mind … reborn after death in a state of misery … in hell.’”

An individual here with
A wrongly directed mind
Who utters wrong speech
And performs wrong deeds,
One of little learning,
Who does demerit in this short life—
Upon the perishing of the body
That foolish one is reborn in hell.

- Translator: John D. Ireland

- Editor: Bhikkhu Sujato

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Having Wrong View

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, I’ve seen beings who engaged in misconduct by body, speech, and mind, who abused the noble ones, who had wrong views and acted accordingly.
At the breaking up of the body, after death, they were reborn in a lower realm, a bad destination, a world of misery, hell.
Now, I don’t say this because I’ve heard it from some other ascetic or brahmin.
I only say it because I’ve known, seen, and realized it for myself.”
The Buddha spoke this matter.
On this it is said:
“When the mind has been misdirected,
and words wrongly spoken,
and wrong bodily deeds have been done,
a person here
unlearned, doer of bad deeds,
though their life may be short,
when their body breaks up, that witless person
is reborn in hell.”
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.