Buddha Stories for All

  In the time of the Buddha, there was an earth-bound deva with a radiant appearance and great supernatural power, yet he stood naked , suffering from deep shame. People were puzzled— if he was a deity of the earth, why did he have no clothes to wear? If he possessed majesty and psychic power, why did he still have to endure such painful results? It turns out that none of this was accidental. All of it was the ripening of actions done in the past.

MORAL Five precepts: No sexual misconduct INTRODUCTION This story describes how Venerable Mahāmoggallāna, while traveling through the Himalayan mountains, encountered a female magical-palace ghost and her five hundred servants. He asked them what kamma they had done in the past to be reborn as female magical-palace ghost.