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(a) By taking a vow of silence (mou
nabalambë) for a certain period during which the mumuksha jiva should never open his lips.
Or by (6) Våkniyami-regulating his tongue only
to move on imperative occasions. (iii) Kdya-gupti--means controlling the
physical organism by the mumukshu jivu in accordance with the various rules and regulations as
laid down in the scriptures. Now from the characteristic indications of all the three guptis, it is apparent that they are meant to help a jiva in the arrest of his karmic inflow ; for all these act as an antedote to the poisons of temptations which the world abounds with.
(C) The Ten-fold Duties of the Monk.
A monk can well stop the influx of karma by acting in consistent with the ten duties enjoined on the human species specially on monks and they are; (i) Kshama-Forgiveness. There is nothing like the maxim 'forget and forgive.
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