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Suffering Follows The Evil-Doer


1 (1) The Story of the Monk Cakkhupàla (Verse 1)

While residing at the Jetavana Monastery in Sàvatthi, the Buddha spoke this verse, with reference to Cakkhupàla, a blind monk.
On one occasion, Monk Cakkhupàla came to pay hom- age to the Buddha at the Jetavana Monastery. One night, while pacing up and down in meditation, the monk accidentally stepped on some insects.

In the morning, some monks visiting the monk found the dead insects. They thought ill of the monk and reported the matter to the Buddha.

The Buddha asked them whether they had seen the monk killing the insects. When they answered in the negative, the Buddha said, "Just as you had not seen him killing, so also he had not seen those living insects.

Besides, as the monk had already attained ara- hatship he could have no intention of killing, so he was inno- cent." On being asked why Cakkhupàla was blind although he was an arahat, the Buddha told the following story:

Cakkhupàla was a physician in one of his past exist- ences.


Once, he had deliberately made a woman patient blind. That woman had promised to become his slave, together with her children, if her eyes were completely cured. Fearing that she and her children would have to become slaves, she lied to the physician. She told him that her eyes were getting worse when, in fact, they were perfectly cured.

The physician knew she was deceiving him, so in revenge, he gave her another ointment, which made her totally blind. As a result of this evil deed the physician lost his eyesight many times in his later existences.

from: DHAMMAPADA