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ATTHAKAVAGGA.
purification through another, for he is not pleased nor displeased (with anything)?:
(813) Garâsutta is ended.
7. TISSAMETTEYYASUTTA.
Sexual intercourse should be avoided. 1. “Tell me, O venerable one,'—so said the venerable Tissa Metteyya,—the defeat of him who is given to sexual intercourse; hearing thy precepts we will learn in seclusion.'
(814) 2. "The precepts of him who is given to sexual intercourse, O Metteyya,'—so said Bhagavat,—'are lost, and he employs himself wrongly, this is what is ignoble in him.
(815) 3. “He who, having formerly wandered alone, gives himself up to sexual intercourse, him they call in the world a low, common fellow, like a rolling chariot.
(816) 4. What honour and renown he had before, that is lost for him; having seen this let him learn to give up sexual intercourse.
(817) 5. “He who overcome by his thoughts meditates like a miser, such a one, having heard the (blaming) voice of others, becomes discontented. (818)
6. “Then he makes weapons (i.e. commits evil
1 Dhono na hi tena maññati
Yad idam ditthasutam mutesu vâ, Nâ7ĩena visuddhim ikkhati,
Na hi so raggati no viraggati. Comp. Suddhatthakasutta, v. 2.
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