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VAIYĀVẶTYA : SELFLESS SERVICE
Vyāpadi yat kriyate tad vaiyāvrtyar ||
- Dhavalā Book 13, p. 63. The service and cooperation that is extended under emergent situations is known as Vaiyāvrtya or selfless service. Prāyaścittavinayavaiyāvrtyasvādhyāyavyutsargadhyānānyuttaram |
- Tattvārthasūtra, 9.20. Penitence, humility, service, self-study, renunciation and meditation are the forms of internal penance.
Pāyacchittaṁ viņao veyāvaccam taheva sajjhão | Jhāņaṁ ca viussaggo, eso abbhintaro tavo II
- Uttarādhyayana sūtra, 30.30. Penitence, humility, service, self-study, meditation and renunciation constitute internal penance.
Gilāņaṁ veyāvaccam karemāạe samaņe nigganthe mahānijjare mahāpajjavasāne bhavati |
- Vyavahāra sūtra.
The knotless monk that serves the diseased ones achieves great karmic destruction and achieves the end of worldly transmigration.
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