Drinking beer and wine, having sex, accepting currency and gold: they’re ignorant. Some ascetics and brahmins make a living the wrong way.

These corruptions were spoken of by the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun. When corrupted by these, some ascetics and brahmins don’t shine or glow. Impure, dirty creatures,

swathed in darkness, bondservants of craving, full of attachments, swell the horrors of the charnel ground, taking up future lives.”

Numbered Discourses 4.51 6. Overflowing Merit Overflowing Merit