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## Time-Series-Based-Authority 10.
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**994**
* **Translation:** By meticulously cleaning the utensils used for eating, sleeping, sitting, and by protecting living beings, a monk establishes a sign of his own righteousness.
**995**
* **Translation:** A virtuous person who observes the rules of the four-month penance and performs the *proṣadha* fast on both the fourteenth days of the lunar month, does not lose ultimate happiness, but rather attains it.
**996**
* **Translation:** A monk who consumes food, uses utensils, and resides in a place without purifying them, attains the state of a householder and is considered inferior to a monk in the world.
**997**
* **Translation:** The conduct, austerity, and self-control of a monk who neglects the time-bound rules of conduct, do not become pure. Even if he has been practicing for a long time, his dwelling place does not become pure.