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Bhagavati Sūtra Bk. 3 Ch. 3
if more water pours in, which, like a jar full of water, is full everywhere. Do you understand ?
Yes, Sir, I do.
Now, in that tank, if a man places a big boat with hundreds of small holes and hundreds of big holes, then, does not that boat, taking water in through those holes, become full of water? Does it not become full to the brim ? Does it not have an overflow of water? Is it not full everywhere like a jar full of water?
Yes, it is as aforesaid.
Now, Manditaputra, suppose somebody applies wax on all the holes, and throws out the whole quantity of water; then, does it not float again?
Yes, it does.
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Manditaputra ! In the same manner, one who has restrained self by self, who observes all forms of vigilance starting with vigilance in movement,...till is controlled and restrained in sex behaviour, who is consciously careful when he moves, when he lives, when he sits. when he lies, when he picks up and places his cloth, pot, blanket, duster, etc., even such a monk acquires, in an indeterminate way, activity of the type of non-vigilance for a moment which is no bigger than a wink of the eye. This, in the first stage, ties-and-touches, in the second stage, comes up and makes him experience, and in the third stage, gets exhausted. (In other words,) tied-and touched, come up, experienced and exhausted, this activity becomes, in future, virtually a non-activity, For this reason, Manditaputra, when a living being trembles not in a measured way,.. till does not so transform, he has, at the time of his death, his final activity. So it is stated like that18.
(The implication is that a man without asrava is without activity, and he crosses safely through the world.)
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