sn42.6:5.1 “Chief, suppose a person were to throw a broad rock into a deep lake.
sn42.6:5.2 And a large crowd were to come together to offer up supplication and entreaty, circumambulating it with cupped palms, and saying:
sn42.6:5.3 ‘Rise, good rock! Float, good rock! Float to shore, good rock!’
sn42.6:5.4 What do you think, chief?
sn42.6:5.5 Would that broad rock rise up or float because of their supplications?”
sn42.6:5.6 “No, sir.”
sn42.6:5.7 “In the same way, take a person who kills living creatures, steals, and commits sexual misconduct. They use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical. And they’re covetous, malicious, and have wrong view.
sn42.6:5.8 Even though a large crowd were to come together to offer up supplication and entreaty …
sn42.6:5.9 when their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.