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the influence of four wrong courses of actions
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The King returned to The Country and punished His Queen
The King, after several vain attempts to persuade his son to return to his country, made
his way back to his capital, crying and weeping all along the route. In the course of his
journey, he questioned his ministers: ‚Who is responsible for the severance of my son
from me?‛ They all unanimously replied: ‚You have sustained the loss of such a worthy
and honourable son through your Chief Queen.‛ On his arrival at the city, he immediately
caused the Queen to be flung over the precipice upside down before he entered the royal
palace. He ruled over the country and the people wisely and justly ever after.
The Buddha, after preaching the above discourse, proceeded to say: ‚
Bhikkhus
, in this
manner Cincamana had decried Me by abusive language in a previous existence‛:
15) CincamÈnavika mÈta
Devadatto ca me pitÈ
Œnando pandito nÈgo
SÈriputto ca devatÈ
RÈjaputto aham ÈsiÑ evam dhÈetha jÈtakam.
Bhikkhus
.... Cincamana was then the Queen, the stepmother, the brother-in-
law Devadatta was then the king, Œnanda was then the wise dragon, SÈriputta
was then the guardian deity of the mountain, and I was then MahÈ Paduma.
The JÈtaka was brought to a close by this last verse.
End of MahÈ Paduma JÈtaka
The Buddha proceeded to reveal the fact that, there is no immoral act that a liar dare not
commit: ‚
Bhikkhus
... one who has abandoned the course of telling the Truth and pursued
the course of telling lies, has also forsaken the advantages of attainment of NibbÈna and
rebirth in the worlds of devas and humans, and as such, there is no immoral act that they
loath to perform!‛
EkaÑ dhammaÓ atÊtassa
masavÈdissa jantuno
vitiÑÓaparalokassa
nathi pÈpaÑ akariyaÑ.
Bhikkhus
... one who has breached the course of not telling lies has also
forsaken the advantages of NibbÈna and rebirths in the realms of devas and
humans, and as such, there is no immoral act that these people, destined for
planes of woes, will not dare to perform.
At the conclusion of the discourse, a large multitude of beings attained
sotÈpatti
fruition
state, etc.
(This is an extensive exposition of Cincamana's false accusation.)
The Original Cause of Wicked Cincamana's Accusation.
The following is an exposition of the original cause that actuated wicked Cincamana to
make the accusation:-
Prior to an infinite period of four
asa~khyeyyas
and a hundred thousand aeons (before
the definite prophecy of enlightenment had been made) the Bodhisatta was a person of
distracted mind, with wrong attitudes through constant association with bad people of the
most hopeless type. On one occasion, he chanced to slander an
arahat
named Nanda, a
disciple of Buddha Sabbabhibhu, by accusing him of having unlawful association with a
woman. This was a very grave offence of slandering a noble person,
ariya
.
5. Wrong Courses of action: those dominated by desire, by ill-will, by delusion and by fear.