Let me tell you, monks, let me answer you, monks, that it better for a
person, immoral, wicked, unclean and suspect in conduct, secretive in
deeds, not a contemplative though claiming to be one, not leading the
holy life though claiming to do so, inwardly rotten, oozing with
desire, filthy by nature, if a strong man were to wrap the body with
red-hot iron sheet, blazing, burning, glowing.
Why so? For, monks, because of that he would suffer death,
or death-like agony, but on account of that, on the break-up of the body
after death, he won't be reborn in a place of woe, a realm of misery,
a state of punishment, a purgatory.
And monks, for such a person, immoral, wicked, unclean and suspect in
conduct, secretive in deeds, not a contemplative though claiming to be
one, not leading the holy life though claiming to do so, inwardly
rotten, oozing with desire, filthy by nature, who uses the robe given
in faith by rich kshatriya or rich brahmin or rich householder, for
him, monks, there is a long-term harm and suffering, and on the
break-up of the body after death, he is reborn in a place of woe, a
realm of misery, a state of punishment, a purgatory.