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(338) In this world, there are many ill-behaved monks who are called monks; a pseudo-nionk should not be called a monk; but a true monk alone must be called a monk.
(339) A person who is endowed with (Right) knowledge and (Right) Faith, is engaged in self-restraint and penance, and is endowed truly with all these virtues, should be called a monk.
(340) A person does not become a monk by merely shaving his head, a Brahmin by repeating the Omkāra mantra, a monk by residing in a forest, nor a hermit by wearing garments woven of darbha grass.
(341) A person becomes a śramana by equanimity, a Brahmin by his celibacy, a Muni by his knowledge and an ascetic by his austerities.
(342) A person becomes a monk by his virtues and a pseudo-monk by absence of virtues; therefore master all the virutes of a monk and be free from all the vices of a pseudomonk; conquer your self through the self. He who possesses equanimity in the face of attachments and hatred is worthy of veneration.
(343) Those monks who are attached to their body, addicted to sensual pleasures, possessed of passions, and asleep in respect of their own nature are certainly devoid of righteousness.
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