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nothing injurious to beings who people the world, whether they move or not. (10)
He should know what alms may be accepted, and should strictly keep these rules; a monk should beg food only for the sustenance of life, and should not be dainty. (11)
He should eat what tastes badly, cold food, old beans, Vakkasa Pulâga, and for the sustenance of his life he should eat Manghu (ground badara). (12)
Those who interpret the marks of the body, and dreams, and who know the foreboding changes in the body (angavidya) ?, are not to be called Sramanas; thus the preceptors have declared. (13)
Those who do not take their life under discipline, who cease from meditation and ascetic practices?, and who are desirous of pleasures, amusements, and good fare, will be born again as Asuras. (14)
And when they rise (in another birth) from the world of the Asuras, they err about, for a long time, in the Samsara ; those whose souls are sullied by many sins, will hardly ever attain Bôdhi. (15)
And if somebody should give the whole earth to one man, he would not have enough ; so difficult is it to satisfy anybody. (16)
The more you get, the more you want; your desires increase with your means. Though two mâshas would do to supply your want, still you would scarcely think ten millions sufficient. (17)
i See the note on verse 17 of the Fifteenth Lecture.
? Samadhiyôgah. Samadhi is concentration of the mind, and the yôgâs are, in this connection, the operations (vyâpâra) of mind, speech, and body conducive to it.
