§ 89.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Conquered by three forms of false Dhamma -- his mind overwhelmed -- Devadatta^* is incurably doomed to deprivation, to hell, for an aeon. Which three? Conquered by evil desires -- his mind overwhelmed -- Devadatta is incurably doomed to deprivation, to hell, for the duration of an aeon. Conquered by friendship with evil people -- his mind overwhelmed -- Devadatta is incurably doomed to deprivation, to hell, for the duration of an aeon. And, there being something further to be done, he nevertheless stopped halfway with a lower modicum of distinctive attainment. Conquered by these three forms of false Dhamma -- his mind overwhelmed -- Devadatta is incurably doomed to deprivation, to hell, for an aeon."

May no one in the world
ever be reborn
with evil desire.
Know that,
through that
evil desire,
his destination's that
of all who have evil desires.

I've heard how Devadatta,
-- regarded as wise, composed,
incandescent with honor --
in the thrall of heedlessness
assaulted the Tathagata
and fell to the four-gated, fearful place:
    Avici, unmitigated hell.

Whoever plots against
one free of corruption
who's done no evil deed:
that evil touches him himself,
    corrupted in mind,
    disrespectful.

Whoever might think
of polluting the ocean
with a pot of poison,
couldn't succeed,
for the mass of water is great.
        So it is
when anyone attacks with abuse
    the Tathagata
    -- rightly-gone,
    of peaceful mind --
for abuse doesn't grow on him.
A wise person should make friends,
    should associate,
with a person like him --
whose path        a monk can pursue
    and reach the ending
    of suffering & stress.