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## Eleventh Uddeshak
**[225]** A monk should naturally be serious and fearless. Even when fearful circumstances arise, he should remain cautious and discerning. If he needs to inform other saints, he should do so with serious and comforting words, not in a way that causes fear.
Fearful circumstances not arising, yet causing fear in others or oneself, is due to excessive fearfulness or curiosity, which is inappropriate for a monk.
The consequences of causing fear are:
1. Neglect of one's own or others' happiness.
2. Becoming proud due to the pleasure of others being afraid.
3. Becoming agitated or experiencing fear of disease.
4. If a 'ghost' or similar entity enters due to fear or causing fear, it leads to many negative consequences.
5. Useless actions caused by fear can lead to the suffering of the six categories of beings.
Therefore, one should not be afraid oneself, nor should one cause fear in others.
**Vismitikaran Prāyaścitta**
**65.** A monk who makes himself amazed or approves of being amazed.
**66.** A monk who makes others amazed or approves of being amazed. (He incurs Guru-Chaumasi Prāyaścitta.)
**Discussion:**
It is not appropriate for a monk to amaze himself or others through knowledge, mantras, achievements through penance, magic, statements about past, present, and future, disappearance, walking on water, and yoga (combination of substances).
The present sutras state that Guru-Chaumasi Prāyaścitta is incurred for making oneself or others amazed through the imagination of such supernatural practices that one has not personally experienced or witnessed being performed by others. The commentary states that making oneself or others amazed through actual supernatural practices incurs Laghu-Chaumasi Prāyaścitta.
One should understand from this sutra that there are also other forms of Prāyaścitta for causing amazement through various forms of curiosity.
**Consequences of Supernatural Practices**