One tiem, Maudgalyayana was returning from begging for food. As he approached a forest, a young woman was waiting for him. She was an attractive woman that any man would dream about. She walked out of the forest and called out to Maudgalyayana. "Venerable One, why are you in a hurry? Do you have time for a chat?"

Maudgalyayana stopped walking and looked at her. He not only saw her face clearly, but he also saw her evil intentions: she had been paid by a rival religious group to seduce and corrupt him." Your poor woman," he said to her seriously. "Your mind is so filthy that you were paid to seduce me!"

The woman was shocked to hear that. Her mouth opened and she pointed a finger at him. "How...how can you say that?" she shuttered.

"Don't try to fool me," Maudgalyayana said sternly. "I knew it as soon as I saw you. You have fallen into an abyss of depravity, like an elephant sinking into a sand trap without any hope of getting free."

The woman lowered her hand and her head and was silent for a short while. Then she raised her head and spoke to Maudgalyayana sadly."Venerable One, now you know the whole thing, so I won't try to hide it from you anymore. I have heard that you are the Buddha's disciple with the greatest supernatural powers, but I didn't believe that you could resist my beauty. Now I know how wrong I was. I regret my past misconduct and I want to change my ways, but I have no idea how to go about it. I feel my future is very dark." As she talked, her tears rolled down her cheeks.