iti20:0.1So It Was Said 20
iti20:0.2The Book of the Ones
iti20:0.3Chapter Two
iti20:0.4A Corrupted Mind
iti20:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti20:2.1“Mendicants, when I’ve comprehended the mind of an individual whose mind is corrupted, I understand:
iti20:2.2‘If this individual were to die right now, they would be placed in hell as if delivered there.’
iti20:2.3Why is that?
iti20:2.4Because their mind is corrupted.
iti20:2.5Corruption of mind is the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.”
iti20:2.6The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti20:2.7On this it is said:
iti20:3.1“Knowing an individual’s
iti20:3.2corrupted mind,
iti20:3.3the Buddha explained this matter
iti20:3.4in the mendicants’ presence.
iti20:4.1If that individual
iti20:4.2were to die at this time,
iti20:4.3they’d be reborn in hell,
iti20:4.4for their mind is corrupted.
iti20:5.1That sort is cast down as surely
iti20:5.2as if they’d been carried off and put there.
iti20:5.3For corruption of mind is the reason
iti20:5.4sentient beings go to a bad place.”
iti20:6.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.