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praise of one's self, telling one's own existing and nonexisting merits, concealing one's own faults, and pride in birth, etc. are äsravas of low-birth karma. The asravas of high-birth karma are the opposite of those for low-birth karma, and absence of pride, reverence in speech, body, and mind.
Obstruction, either with or without trickery, in giving, receiving, power, enjoyment, and repeated enjoyment are āsravas of obstructive karma.
This boundless ocean of existence which arises from āsravas as described above must be crossed by the wise man by the boat of mendicancy."
By that sermon of the Lord many were awakened, like night-blooming lotuses by the light of the moon, and took initiation by thousands. The Lord had eighty-eight gaṇabhrts, Varāha, etc., and at the end of the (Lord's) sermon, Varäha delivered a sermon. At the end of the gañabhrt's sermon gods and asuras went to their respective places, making an eight-day festival in Nandīśvara.
Śāsanadevatās (138–141) Originating in that congregation, Ajita, white-bodied, with a tortoise for a vehicle, holding a citron and a rosary in his right hands, an ichneumon and spear in her left hands, was the Lord's messenger-deity always near. Likewise originating, Sutārā, fair-bodied, with a bull for a vehicle, holding a rosary in one right hand and the other in boon-granting position, holding a pitcher and a goad in her left hands, was the Lord's messenger-deity always in attendance. With them always in his vicinity, the Lord of the World, a great ocean of compassion, wandered over the earth, enlightening the people.
The congregation (143-147) Two hundred thousand monks, one hundred and twenty thousand nuns, eighty-four hundred ascetics with
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