Dhpv 5 Kālayakkhinī Vatthu - The Human-eating Female Ogre

This is a tragic story that spans three lifetimes:

Two women, driven by jealousy, stinginess and hatred,
keep harming each other repeatedly throughout the cycle of rebirth—
from human lives to animal world, and even as female yakkha.
Yet their cycle of hatred still cannot come to an end—

until the appearance of the Buddha…

“In this world at any time, hatred is never appeased by hatred;

But by non-hatred it is appeased—this is an eternal law.”

—Dhammapada, verse 5

Quarrels never end by further quarrelling; war never ceases through more war.

Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow.

Enmity never ends by returning enmity for enmity. Only by giving up anger, enmity, quarrelling and wars can these evils be stopped. It is through friendliness, forgiving and forgetting past wrongs that enmity ceases.

This is not merely a story about two women.
It is a story that unfolds in families, among friends, between colleagues,
and even among social groups or nations.

It is a story about
✨ the frightening power of jealousy and stinginess,
✨ how hatred can swallow lives whole,
✨ and how compassion can dissolve even the deepest and oldest resentment.

May both children and adults learn from this tale:
Forgiveness is stronger than revenge,
and compassion is far more powerful than hatred.

During the time of the Buddha, there lived a man named Cunda.
For more than fifty-five years, he earned his living by slaughtering pigs.

Day after day, his mind was filled with cruelty, harshness, and the defilements of anger and harm—
yet he never realized that he was creating extremely heavy unwholesome kamma.
When death approached and after his passing, he suffered the burning torment of the blazing hell-fire.