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these are the attributes of the inanimate, are functions of the inanimate...
Thus, it is deduced, that during the fruition of delusion and asata (pain) karmas hunger is felt; this is the principle of hunger and thirst. Merely knowing it is not saintliness, but equanimity is essential with knowledge; the ornament of a sramana is equality-equanimity...
On this side food-serving starts with water in the hand-utensil of the Patra; but what is this! All of a sudden the Patra closes his utensil (palms), soon, from the other side a golden urn is advanced filled with sweet milk, yet seeing the palm undisclosed the third donor shows a silver urn in which sugarcane juice is filled, when that too remains ignored, then
the turn of a quartz ewer filled with the red juice of pomegranate
332 :: Silent Soil
