Kumara Kassapa, accompanied by an
assembly of five hundred Bhikkhus, came to the town of Setavvya in Kosala. At
that time Prince Payasi was residing in Setavvya. The Prince had such a wrong
Philosophic view : There is no other world; no beings arise again after death,
there are no consequenceness f good or bad deads.
Prince Payasi visited Venerable Kumara
Kassapa and maintained before him the philosophic view he had adhered to for so
long. He told him about all the experiments he had done so far. He had asked
some friends of his at their death-bed, to come back and tell him the news of
the other world, but none of them had ever come back to tell him about it.
Venerable Kumara Kassapa explained to
him, by means of several similes, that this world does exist, that the other
called Paraloka, and the fruits of one’s good and evil actions also exist. At
least Prince Payasi admitted his error and accepted the discipleship of the
Bhikkhus. After death, Payasi was born among the heavenly beings known as the
Maharajaka of the Four Quarters.
