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AN 5.211 - An Abuser Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/an5.211/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Numbered Discourses 5.211 22. Abuse An Abuser “Mendicants, a mendicant who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, denouncing the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks. What five? They’re expelled, cut off, blocked out; or they commit a corrupt offense; or they contract a severe illness. They feel lost when they die. And when their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. A mendicant who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, denouncing the noble ones, can expect these five drawbacks.”