dn23:10.1 “Even though the worthy Kassapa says this, still I think that
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dn23:10.2 there is no afterlife.”
dn23:10.3 “Can you prove it?”
dn23:10.4 “I can.”
dn23:10.5 “How, exactly, chieftain?”
dn23:10.6 “Well, I have friends and colleagues, relatives and kin who refrain from killing living creatures and so on.
dn23:10.7 Some time later they become sick, suffering, gravely ill.
dn23:10.8 When I know that
dn23:10.9 they will not recover from their illness, I go to them and say,
dn23:10.10 ‘Worthy sir, there are some ascetics and brahmins who have this doctrine and view:
dn23:10.11 “Those who refrain from killing living creatures and so on are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm, in the company of the gods of the thirty-three.”
dn23:10.12 You do all these things.
dn23:10.13 If what those ascetics and brahmins say is true, when your body breaks up, after death, you’ll be reborn in the company of the gods of the thirty-three.
dn23:10.14 If that happens, worthy sir, come and tell me that
dn23:10.15 there is an afterlife.
dn23:10.16 I trust you and believe you. Anything you see will be just as if I’ve seen it for myself.’
dn23:10.17 They agree to this. But they don’t come back to tell me, nor do they send a messenger.
dn23:10.18 This is how I prove that
dn23:10.19 there is no afterlife.”