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COMPREHENSION AND RENUNCIATION OF WEAPONS
In case he does not become a householder, he would still act like one,even though remaining in the garbs of a monk.
Here, therefore, the evangelist has compared the sensual qualities with a whirlpool. Just as a person caught in a whirlpool finds it difficult to extricate himself out of it, so also a sadhaka caught in sensual pleasures cannot easily free himself from them.
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EE. लज्जमाणा पुढो पास । Vanassaikaiyahimsa-padam
99.
Lajja māņā puḍho pāsa.
Violence to Beings of Vegetable-body
99. See! every (ascetic who has ceased from causing violence to these beings) leads a life of self-discipline.
१००. अणगारा मोत्ति एगे पवयमाणा ।
100. Anagara motti ege pavayamāņā.
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100. (And discern from them) those pseudo-monks who, despite professing, "We are mendicants, "(act like householders i. e. cause violence to the beings of vegetable-body).
१०१. जमिणं विरूवरूवेहिं सत्थेहिं वणस्सइ-कम्म-समारंभेणं वणस्सइ
सत्थं समारंभमाणे अण्णे वणेगरुवे पाणे विहिंसति ।
101. Jamiņam viruvarūvehim satthehim vanassai-kammasamārambheņam vaṇassaisattham samarambhamāņe anne vanegarūve pāņe vihimsati.
101. He (pseudo-monk), employing various kinds of weapons, indulges in actions involving vegetable, (thereby) causing violence to the beings of vegetable-body, (He causes violence not only to the beings of vegetablebody, but also) causes violence to different kinds of other beings.
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