Dasveyaliya Sutta

SR No.: 002354
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

Page 130

12. [Second] Appendix
119 9. For those Great Sages who appreciate it, the career of a monk is equal to [the life] in the world of the Gods, but for those who do not, it is like the life in the nethermost hell; 10. A wise (monk] therefore, when he knows that those who appreciate the career of a monk, enjoy highest bliss like to that of the Gods and that those who do not, feel severest pain like to that in hell, should act as the former act. 11. The miserable [man) who has fallen from Dharma, has lost his prestige and is like a sacrificial fire that becomes extinct and without heat; monks of bad conduct [will] abuse him like a poisonous snake which has lost its fangs. 12. Adharma, bad reputation, shame, [and] discredit with every one are the lot of a man who has fallen from Dharma, embraces Adharma and has destroyed his right conduct. 13. When he has enjoyed pleasures to his heart's content and has shown lack of self-control in no lesser degree, he is likely to go to a life of unthinkable pain, and knowledge [of the Faith shall not come within his reach any more. 14. "Even the time of] a paliopama or a sāgaropama will {at last] be over for a miserable hell-being in pain; much more 80 this my disgust. 15. This my trouble will not last long, for Man's thirst for pleasures is not permanent; if it will not disappear together with the present state of my] body, it will disappear when I leave this life.” 16. [A monk] whose heart is thus made firm, would rather give up the body than [ignore] the ordinancy of Dharma ; such a man is not troubledby his senses any more than Mount Meru by a wind blowing over its surface. 17. Thus considering and knowing the different consolations [enumerated above), a wise man should adhere to the word of the Jinas, being protected by the three pro-. tections, (viz. the protections of] body, speech, and mind. Thus I say.
12. [Second] Appendix. 1. Now I shall proclaim an appendix [based on] words told by the Omniscient One and handed down by tradition, [an appendix) which is suitable to create the [right] idea of Dharma in the mind of those who [in former lives] have accumulated merit. 2. While most people [are swimming]