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pain and anguish ; and who, upon the dissolution of the system, 

 are after death reproduced in hell, the abode of wretchedness, 

 misery, and continued anguish. This, priests, is the line of 

 conduct which produces present pain and future sorrow. 



"What is that line of conduct, priests, which affords present 

 gratification but produces future misery? Liome persons in 

 the enjoyment of pleasure and delight are destroyers of animal 

 life, thieves, lewd, liars, slanderers, revilers, foolish babblers, 

 covetous, malignant, heterodox, and who from these practices 

 experience pleasure and gratification ; but upon the dissolution 

 of the system they are, after death, reproduced in hell, the abode 

 of wretchedness, misery, and continued anguish. This, priests, 

 is the line of conduct which affords present gratification, but 

 produces future misery. 



"What, priests, is that line of conduct which, although at 

 present painful, produces happy results ? Some persons, priests, 

 although enduring pain and disquietude, abstain from destroying 

 animal life, from dishonesty, from lewdness, from lies, from 

 slander, from reviling, from vain babbling, from covetousness, 

 from malignancy and from heterodoxy, and who in consequence 

 of abstaining from these have to endure pain and disquietude ; 

 but upon the dissolution of the system they will, after death, 

 be reproduced in a happy heavenly world. This, priests, is the 

 line of conduct which produces present pain, but leads to future 

 happy results. 



"What, priests, is that line of conduct which gives present 

 pleasure and leads to future happiness? Some persons, priests, 

 being happy and contented, abstain from destroying animal life, 

 from dishonesty, from lewdness, from lies, from slanders, from 

 reviling, from foolish babbling, from covetousness, from malig- 

 nancy and from heterodoxy ; and who, in consequence of abstain- 

 ing from these things, are happy and contented in the present 

 world, and upon the dissolution of the system they will, after 

 death, be reproduced in a happy heavenly world. This, priests, 



