Are there any texts found in the EBT that are comparable, or relatable to the follow excerpt from DN21?
[Thus invited, Sakka, the ruler of the gods, asked this first question of the Exalted One] ‘By what fetters, sir, are they bound—gods, men, Asūras, Nāgas, Gandhabbas, and whatever other great classes of beings there be—in that they, wishing thus—“Would that, without hatred, injury, enmity, or malignity, we might live in amity!”—do nevertheless live in enmity, hating, injuring, hostile, malign?’
Such was the fashion of Sakka’s first question to the Exalted One. To him the Exalted One so asked made answer—
‘By the fetters of envy and selfishness, ruler of gods, are they bound—gods, men, Asūras, Nāgas, Gandhabbas and whatever other great classes of beings there be—in that they wishing thus—“Would that, without hatred, injury, enmity, or malignity, we might live in amity!”—do nevertheless live in enmity, hating, injuring, hostile, malign.’
(Trans: T.W. & C.A.F. Rhys Davids)