mn136:9.1 Now, some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that it gives rise to clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman. With that clairvoyance they see that individual
mn136:9.2 here who killed living creatures, stole, and committed sexual misconduct; who used speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical; and who was covetous, malicious, and had wrong view. And they see that, when their body breaks up, after death, they are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.
mn136:9.3 They say:
mn136:9.4 ‘It seems, worthy sir, that there is such a thing as bad deeds, and the result of bad conduct.
mn136:9.5 For I have seen a individual here who killed living creatures … and had wrong view. And when their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.’
mn136:9.6 They say:
mn136:9.7 ‘It seems that everyone who kills living creatures … and has wrong view is reborn in hell.
mn136:9.8 Those whose notion is this have the right notion. Those whose notion is otherwise have a wrong notion.’
mn136:9.9 And so they obstinately stick to what they have known, seen, and understood for themselves, insisting that: ‘This is the only truth, anything else is futile.’