In the accounts of the Buddha's post-awakening, there is the stock phrase in a number of suttas (SN 6.1, MN 26, MN 85 and DN 14), namely:
Sometimes, the term "paraloka" is translated as "next world". Regardless, this verse is not clear to me. What does fear and blame in the other/next world (paralokavajjabhaya) actually mean? Is fear and blame in the other/next world (paralokavajjabhaya) here a virtue or a sin? Is fear and blame in the other/next world (paralokavajjabhaya) a good quality or bad quality?I surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha. Surveying the world with the eye of a Buddha, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and with much dust in their eyes, with keen faculties and with dull faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach, and some who dwelt seeing fear and blame in the other world (paralokavajjabhaya). Just as in a pond of blue or red or white lotuses, some lotuses that are born and grow in the water thrive immersed in the water without rising out of it, and some other lotuses that are born and grow in the water rest on the water’s surface, and some other lotuses that are born and grow in the water rise out of the water and stand clear, unwetted by it; so too, surveying the world with the eye of a Buddha, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and with much dust in their eyes, with keen faculties and with dull faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach, and some who dwelt seeing fear and blame in the other world. (Bodhi)
https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/bodhi
And some of them lived seeing the danger in the flaw to do with the next world, while others did not. (Sujato)
https://suttacentral.net/sn6.1/en/sujato
I saw beings with little dust in their eyes, with much dust in their eyes, with acute faculties with dull faculties, of good dispositions, of bad dispositions, docile, indocile, few seeing from fear sins and the world beyond. (Horner)
https://suttacentral.net/mn26/en/horner
I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world. (Thanissaro)
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
Thank you. Please discuss.