Saman suttam Part 1

SR No.: 008022
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 119
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 6 MB

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Certainly saints are always better than the householders in regard to self-restraint. (But) (sometimes it has been found that) some householders are better than some saints in regard to self-restraint. In consonance with the doctrine of Jina (the spiritual victor), so long as I am not feeling fit in getting tonsured for becoming a Sramaņa (saint) in right earnest, I shall adopt in the presence of Sramaņas who are dear to the enlightened persons, twelvefold householder's mode of life which consists of five Anuvratas (partial vows) and seven Sikşāvratas (educative vows). That has been proclaimed to be the householder's mode of life in which there are five Aņuvratas (partial vows) and seven Sikşāvratas (educative vown) in all. The person who is occupied with them either completely or partially is a Sravaka (householder).
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(23) Of the Householder's Mode of Life
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(Ācāryas) indeed call him Sravaka (householder) who, having attained spiritual awakening and the like, listens to the superb values of conduct daily through the saints The person whose comprehension has become clear through spiritual awakening and who abandons all the (seven kinds of) vicious habits along with the consumption of five udambara fruits (some fruit with living organisms), (he) has been styled 'Srāvaka' (householder) endowed with spiritual awakening. Gambling, drinking, hunting, harshness in speech, callousness in punishment, malpractices in monetary matters, and coital contact with woman (or man) other than one's own wife (or husband)- all these seven have been said to be vicious habits By eating meat, self-conceit aggravates, by reason of selfconceit, the person desires drink, then, he indulges in gambling. And, then, he absorbs the above mentioned other vices too.
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-Gunavrata (vows of withdrawal) + Sikşāvrata (vows of pursuance) = Sikşavratas (educative vows)
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