"You misguided men, how can you for the sake of your stomachs
speak praise of one another's superior human states to householders?
It would be better for you that your bellies be slashed open with a
sharp butcher's knife than that you should for the sake of your
stomachs speak praise of one another's superior human states to
householders. Why is that? For //that// reason you would undergo
death or death-like suffering, but you would not on that account, at
the break-up of the body, after death, fall into deprivation, the
bad bourn, the abyss, purgatory. But for //this// reason you would,
at the break-up of the body, after death, fall into deprivation, the
bad bourn, the abyss, purgatory....Bhikkhus, in this world with its
gods, maras, and brahmas, its generations with priests and
contemplatives, princes and men, this is the ultimate great thief:
he who claims an unfactual, non-existent superior human state. Why
is that? You have consumed the nation's almsfood through theft."