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Q. 40. Bhante! What is the outcome of superior knowledge ?
A. 40. Outcome is renunciation. Q. 41. Bhante! What is the outcome of renunciation ? A. 41. Outcome is restraint. Q. 42. Bhante ! What is the outcome of restraint ?
42. Outcome is check on influx of fresh karma. Q.43. And of the check on influx ? A. 43. Outcome is penance. Q. 44. And of penance ? A. 44. Outcome is the exhaustion of accumulated karma.
Q. 45. Bhante ! What i; the outcome of the exhaustion of accumulated karma ?
A. 45. Outcome is cessation of (all) activity. Q. 46. Bhante! Whereto leads the cessation of activity ?
A. 46. Gautama ! To liberation, which is outcome. It is stated like that.
the final
गाहा
सवणे णाणे य विण्णाणे पच्चक्खाणे य संजमे। अणण्हये तवे चेव वोदाणे अकिरिया सिद्धी ।
Couplet : Listening gives Knowledge
Knowledge leads to Superior Knowledge Wherefrom to Renunciation. Renunciation is the harbinger of Restraint. Restraint checks Influx of Karma, This, in turn, helps the practice of Penance,
