- 聞如是：
一時，佛在羅閱城迦蘭陀竹園所，與大比丘眾五百人俱。
Thus I have heard:
One time, the Budha was dwelling in Raajagriha at the bamboo Grove of Karanda, together with a great assembly of five hundred bhikshus.
2. 爾時，世尊告諸比丘：
「云何，諸比丘！
頗有見提婆達兜清白之法乎？
然復提婆達兜為惡深重，受罪經劫不可療治。
於我法中，不見毫釐之善可稱記者。
以是之故，我今說提婆達兜諸罪之原首不可療治。
猶如有人而墮深廁，形體沒溺，無有一淨處。
有人欲來濟拔其命，安置淨處，遍觀廁側及彼人身，頗有淨處，吾欲手捉拔濟出之。
彼人熟視，無一淨處而可捉者，便捨而去。
如是，諸比丘！
我觀提婆達兜愚癡之人，不見毫釐之法而可記者，受罪經劫不可療治。
所以然者，提婆達兜愚癡專意，偏著利養，作五逆罪已，身壞命終，生惡趣中。
如是，諸比丘！
利養深重，令人不得至安隱之處。
是故，諸比丘！
以生利養心，便當捨離；若未生者，勿興染心。
如是，諸比丘！當作是學。」
At that time, Bhagavaan addressed the Bhikshus:
“What do you think, O Bhikshus? Has anyone seen any pure dharma in Devadata?
Yet Devadata’s evil is profound and heavy, suffering retribution for kalpas beyond cure.
In my Dharma, not even a hair’s breadth of good can be found worthy of mention. Therefore, I now declare Devadata’s crimes to be fundamentally incurable.
It is like a man fallen into a deep cesspit, his body completely submerged without a single clean spot. Someone wishing to save him searches carefully around the pit and his body for a clean place to grasp and pull him out, but finding none, gives up and leaves.
Similarly, O Bhikshus! I observe this foolish Devadata – not a speck of wholesome dharma can be found in him, suffering for kalpas beyond remedy.
Why? Because Devadata, foolish and single-minded, obsessively craved offerings, committed the five heinous crimes, and after death was reborn in evil realms.
Thus, O Bhikshus! Material gain’s weight bars the way to peace.
Therefore, O Bhikshus! Discard arisen greed for gain; prevent its arising; if unarisen, prevent its arising. Thus should you train.”
3. 爾時，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。
When the bhikshus heard what the Budha said, they followed it with joy.