Yes, good point Akvan, i have to be more specific.
Milindapanha, Book IV, §62-66 deals with the dilemma that Gautama, after becoming a Buddha, still suffered pains or certain discomfort.
Which pains and discomfort?
-“At Râgagaha a splinter of rock pierced his foot, and once he suffered from dysentery, and once when the humours of his body were disturbed a purge was administered to him, and once when he was troubled with wind the Elder who waited on him (that is Ânanda) gave him hot water” (§62)
These examples are given at the beginning of the §§.
King Milinda position is that these facts shows that the Buddha was not free of sin, or free of bad kamma. The kings view is:, …”all pains has its root in kamma”, so it is Obvious that the King believed that the cause for these pains and discomfort was bad kamma.
Nagesana makes clear this is not the case. A (small) part of pains and discomfort is due to kamma. Nagesana mentiones 7 other causes.
These can also be found elsehwere in the Sutta-pitaka. These are mentioned earlier in this serie posts.
Nagesana concludes at the end of the sutta:
“So, O king, it is not all pain that is the result of Karma. And you should
accept as a fact that when the Blessed One became a Buddha he had burnt out all evil from within him.”
The King accepts.
So, it deals with the cause of the pains and discomfort after the Blessed One became a Budddha.
I would appreciate when you give some sutta references for what you have heard.
I would appreciate it too when Lal gives his opinion. If abhidhamma really teaches that all bodily pain is due to (bad) kamma that seems not consistent with sutta. Maybe Lal can give some comment on this.
kind regards,
Siebe