dn23:7.0 2.2. The Simile of the Bandit
BAGIAN 7
dn23:7.1 “Well then, chieftain, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like.
dn23:7.2 What do you think, chieftain?
dn23:7.3 Suppose they were to arrest a bandit, a criminal and present him to you, saying,
dn23:7.4 ‘Sir, this is a bandit, a criminal.
dn23:7.5 Punish him as you will.’
dn23:7.6 Then you’d say to them,
dn23:7.7 ‘Well then, my men, tie this man’s arms tightly behind his back with a strong rope. Shave his head and march him from street to street and square to square to the beating of a harsh drum. Then take him out the south gate and there, at the place of execution to the south of the city, chop off his head.’
dn23:7.8 Saying, ‘Good,’ they’d do as they were told, sitting him down at the place of execution.
dn23:7.9 Could that bandit get the executioners to wait, saying,
dn23:7.10 ‘Please, good executioners! I have friends and colleagues, relatives and kin in such-and-such village or town. Wait until I’ve visited them, then I’ll come back’? Or would they just chop off his head as he prattled on?”
dn23:7.13 “They’d just chop off his head.”
dn23:7.14 “So even a human bandit couldn’t get his human executioners to stay his execution.
dn23:7.16 What then of your friends and colleagues, relatives and kin who are reborn in a lower realm after doing bad things? Could they get the wardens of hell to wait, saying,
dn23:7.17 ‘Please, good wardens of hell! Wait until I’ve gone to the chieftain Pāyāsi to tell him that
dn23:7.18 there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds’?
dn23:7.19 By this method, too, it ought to be proven that
dn23:7.20 there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds.”