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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emios" data-source="post: 26982986" data-attributes="member: 254970">Ane manda ban onna eka hoyagatta mae tiyenne.At a time when Buddha was residing at Weluwanārāmaya,Thalaputa staged one of his mega performances in the nearby populous city of Rajagaha. Being of mature intellect he decided to pay a visit to the Buddha with his entire entourage desirous of clarifying a matter that had been gnawing at him for a long time.Having paid his obeisance to the Buddha he posed the question “Lord, I have heard my teachers proclaim, if an actor could make his audience happy by whatever means whether truthful or false such an actor upon death would be born among the celestial beings knows as pahasa. What Lord, would you say to this?”Buddha addressing him by his real name exclaimed “Gamini, it is alright, let that question be, do not ask that from me” obviously to his total bewilderment. Thalaputa though, would not let that question pass, it weighed heavily upon him. He repeated the question; again the Master politely refused it.Thalaputa was persistent and when questioned a third time, the Fully Enlightened One, the Knower of the Worlds, the Teacher of all Men and Gods, spoke thus. : “Really Gamini you would not allow me my request that the question not be asked. Then let me tell you Gamini, there are beings who have not banished lust and continue to be ensnared in lust, and the actor on stage presents performances that amplify those feelings of lust (by display of indecent costumes, provocative movements etc as percommentary); there are beings who have not banished anger and continue to be enraged with anger and the actor stages performances which enhance such feelings of anger (by presentation of violent scenes as murder, decapitating of limbsetc, as per commentary); there are beings who have not banished delusion (avijja) and continue to be blinded by delusion, and the actor presents performances which propagate such delusion (by acts depicting deception, trickery etc. as per commentary); such actors and performers being deluded and lax themselves, cause others too to be deluded and lax.Upon disintegration of body they are born in the netherworld known as Pahasa. Likewise, anyone who entertains a belief (ditthi) that whoever who humours people and induces unwholesome sensual desires to arise within is born amongst the Pahasa gods is harbouring a wrong view (miccha-ditthi). Gamini, I say that to whosoever who holds such a wrong view, one of the two destinations of the foursome lower worlds, purgatorial or animal, is a certainty.</blockquote>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

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