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This Life Next Life 22 22 " " And they were to do so. And you were to say to them: - Well, masters, take him up on to the palace and amuse him with the pleasures of the five senses. And they were to do so. Now what think you, O chieftain ? Would this man, well bathed, well anointed, shaved and combed, dressed, wreathed and adorned, clad in clean raiment, taken to the upper palace, and indulging in, surrounded by, treated to, the five pleasures of sense, be desirous of being plunged once more into that pit of mire ?' 'No indeed, Master Kassapa. ' 'And why?' ' Foul, Master Kassapa, is a pit of mire, foul and counted as such, stinking, disgusting, repulsive, and counted as such. ' 'Even so, Prince, are human beings in the eyes of the gods, foul and counted as such, stinking, disgusting, repulsive, and counted as such. The smell of man offends the gods a hundred leagues away. What then? Shall your friends and companions, your kinsmen and connexions who, having kept the precepts, are reborn into the bright and happy place, come and bring you word that there is another world, that there is rebirth other than by parentage, that there is fruit and result of deeds well - done and ill - done? Let this exposition, chieftain, be evidence to you that these things exist. ' '