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return to the worldly life, I shall have to pay] respect [even] to low-[born] people. (6) [If I returned to the life of a householder, this would be as if] I swallowed my own vomit. (7) [To return) means to reach a place in hell [after death). (8) Those who live amidst householders can not easily attain [even] the qualities of a layman. (9) Such a man will spread death, when ill (10) or when insane. (11-13)To live the life of a householder is not without pain, fetter, and reproach, (but so) is monkhood. (14) The pleasures of the householders are common to all of them. (15) Merit and demerit are individual. (16) Man's life is fugitive and ends suddenly as the dew-drops that drop from the tips of kusa-grass. (17) I have committed many an evil deed before, [the fruit of which is ripening now). (18) Salvation is attained (only) after evil deeds previously done or imperfectly confessed have been felt [in their consequences or have been annihilated by fasting). This is the eighteenth consideration, and to this [whole topic] the following verse[s are recited:]
1. When an ignoble [monk] relinquishes the Dharma for the sake of pleasures, he does not perceive his future [lot], being deluded and foolish. 2. When he has returned to the world] he is like the Moon who has fallen down to the earth, [and being deprived of the foundations of his existence], he has entirely fallen from Dharma [and] then he [will] be in pain. 3-5. Having previously been worthy to be saluted, honoured, esteemed, he will then be unworthy of (it), like a god who has come to a lower form of existence, or like a king who has lost his kingdom, or like a rich merchant who has been banished. into a village, [and] he [will] then be in pain. 6. When he is old and his young manhood has gone, he, (after having returned, will] be in pain like a fish which has swallowed the hook. (6a. When he is troubled by the wants of his ill-natured family, he (will] then be in pain like an elephant who is in chains.) 7. When wife and sons surround him after he has returned [to the life of a householder and] he is thus entangled in the continuity of delusion, he [will] be in pain like an elephant who has sunk in the swamp 8. [and say to himself:]: "To-day I might be a highly esteemed and learned abbot, if I had appreciated the career in the monkhood taught by the Jinas”.
| SR No. | 002354 |
| Book Title | Dasveyaliya Sutta |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ernst Leumann, Walther Schubrin |
| Publisher | Anandji Kalyanji Pedhi |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 142 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & agam_dashvaikalik |
| File Size | 11 MB |