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SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION (41) Reality can be understood properly by those who have realized the highest truth; but for those who are in a lower stage it is proper to expound the reality through the empirical point of view.
(42) Verily, it is very difficult to know the mental stages of monks; therefore the criterion of seniority in the order of monks should be decided by practical view-point i. e. standing monkhood.
(43) Hence all the nayas (view-points), so long as they remain confined to their own respective stand-points, are perverted, but when they are mutually dependent on one another, they verily become true.
(44) Conduct, knowledge etc. are right one when they satisfy general rules as well as the exceptional conditions. They should be practised in such a manner that they become fruitful.
5. PRECEPTS ON THE TRANSMIGRATORY
CYCLE
(45) In this world which is unstable, impermanent and full of misery, is there any thing by the performance of which I can be saved from taking birth in undesirable conditions.
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