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选译自南传巴利英译«法句经»双品第十五品
译于八关斋戒日
看见自己污秽的行为，那作恶之徒感到忧悲，在今生和来世都被困扰。
现世此处悲，死后他处悲，
作诸恶业者，两处俱忧悲，
见自恶业已，他悲他苦恼。
当时，佛陀居住在Savathi的Jetavana寺院里。 有一次，佛陀在一场开示的法会中，提到了屠夫Cundasukarika。
屠夫Cundasukarika以从事杀猪为业，从来不信什么因果业报，更别说供养任何一位比丘一汤匙的白饭或一束鲜花。也没作过任何一件有功德的世间善行。
有一天，他突然行为失常了，就像发了疯般的狂叫，表现出非常痛苦的样子，原来他的恶业现前了，痛苦不断的折磨着屠夫Cundasukarika，使他向猪一般的嚎叫，还用双手及膝盖在地上到处爬行，他的家人看到这种凄惨的样子，便打算将他的手脚绑起来，但是他却力大无穷，没有人能够招架的住。
他的行为影响到附近的邻居，至少附近的七户人家都没有办法睡好，他的家人感到非常的恐惧，还是硬生生的把他绑起来，而且一绑就是七天七夜，屠夫Cundasukarika也受足了七天七夜的折磨，最后他在极度的痛苦中死去，并于恶到中重生。
诸比丘们便对佛陀说道：「世尊啊！那屠夫Cundasukarika的家关门歇业了七天，但这七天中我们都可以听到猪只被屠杀时的惨叫，他一定是在杀猪，他真是个残暴无慈心的人啊。」
佛陀却回答：「比丘们啊，你们都错了，这七天中他非但没有杀猪，反而是承受着极大的痛苦，那是因为他的恶业现前了，所以死前被痛苦不断的折磨着，你们听到杀猪的嚎叫声，那是他因痛苦所发出来的声音，他已足足受了七天的折磨，现在他已在地狱里重生了。」
比丘们听后感叹地说：「世尊啊，他已在人世间受尽痛苦，现在死后还要去受那地狱无尽的折磨，实在可怜啊！」
英文原文网址：
http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/dhp/a.htm#CUNDASUKARIKA
Verses 15
I (10) The Story of Cundasukarika
While residing at the Veluvana monastery in Rajagaha, the Buddha uttered Verse (15) of this book, with reference to Cunda, the pork-butcher.
Once, in a village not far away from the Veluvana monastery, there lived a very cruel and hard-hearted pork-butcher, by the name of Cunda. Cunda was a pork-butcher for over fifty-five years; all this time he had not done a single meritorious deed. Before he died, he was in such great pain and agony that he was grunting and squealing and kept on moving about on his hands and knees like a pig for seven whole days. In fact, even before he died, he was suffering as if he were in Niraya.* On the seventh day, the pork-butcher died and was reborn in Avici Niraya. Thus, the evil-doer must always suffer for the evil deeds done by him; he suffers in this world as well as in the next.
In this connection, the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
Verse 15: Here he grieves, hereafter he grieves; the evil-doer grieves in both existences. He grieves and he suffers anguish when he sees the depravity of his own deeds.
* Niraya or Naraka: a place of continuous torment sometimes compared with hell; but it is different from hell because suffering in Niraya is not everlasting like suffering in hell. Avici Niraya is the most fearful of all Nirayas.
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