Ashin Saraṇa: Monks and the Buddha admonished a monk for failing in renunciation and contentment after he, as a rich layperson, built monastic chambers and storehouses of robes for himself, and later used them as a monk. The monk exclaimed he would stay in an under-robe alone, throwing away his upper robe, but upon the Buddha’s reminder of the monk’s seeking righteousness in a previous life, the monk covered his body. In a past life, when Mahiṃsāsa (the Buddha-to-be) and Canda (Venerable Sāriputta-to-be) were princes, they were expelled from the kingdom because their half-brother Suriya (Venerable Ānanda-to-be) was made a prince-royal when King Brahmadatta’s new wife misused the king’s boon for bearing Prince Suriya. All three went to the forest, where they escaped an ogre’s clutches when Prince Mahiṃsāsa successfully answered the ogre’s question about righteousness and exhibited it in practice. When the king died, the brothers returned back home, Mahiṃsāsa became the king, and making Prince Canda the crown prince and Suriya Commander-in-chief, he had the ogre (the rich monk-to-be) lavishly served in the palace as a reward for the ogre’s decision to stop killing and devouring people – a conclusion of the story upon which the rich monk achieved the first level of Enlightenment.
Zwezarni Htun’s drawing: There was a rich guy that kept robes to himself and food to himself and then used all of that stuff when he became a monk.The rich monk was angry when he heard the buddha’s question and threw off his outer robe, only left with his waist cloth, but then when the buddha spoke about how the Bhikku seurched for righteousness for 12 years. The bhikkus surrounded the buddha to explain the story at what happened in the past, There was a king and queen and the king had 2 sons, and the queen had one, When the queen’s son was grow up she was going let her son be king.Kids drawings
