At Sāvatthi. “Bhikkhus, dreadful are gain, honour, and praise…. Bhikkhus, I have known of a certain person here whose mind I have encompassed with my own mind: ‘This venerable one would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a golden bowl filled with powdered silver.’ Yet some time later I see him, his mind overcome and obsessed by gain, honour, and praise, telling a deliberate lie. So dreadful, Bhikkhus, are gain, honour, and praise…. Thus should you train yourselves.”
At Sāvatthi. “Bhikkhus, dreadful are gain, honour, and praise…. Bhikkhus, I have known of a certain person here whose mind I have encompassed with my own mind: ‘This venerable one would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a silver bowl filled with powdered gold.’ Yet some time later I see him, his mind overcome and obsessed by gain, honour, and praise, telling a deliberate lie. So dreadful, Bhikkhus, are gain, honour, and praise…. Thus should you train yourselves.”
13 (3)–20 (10) Suvaṇṇanikkha, Etc.
At Sāvatthi. “Bhikkhus, dreadful are gain, honour, and praise…. Bhikkhus, I have known of a certain person here whose mind I have encompassed with my own mind: ‘This venerable one would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a suvaṇṇanikkha … even for the sake of a hundred suvaṇṇanikkhas … even for the sake of a siṅginikkha … for a hundred siṅginikkhas … for the earth filled with gold … for any material reward … for the sake of his life … for the most beautiful girl of the land. Yet some time later I see him, his mind overcome and obsessed by gain, honour, and praise, telling a deliberate lie. So dreadful, Bhikkhus, are gain, honour, and praise…. Thus should you train yourselves.”