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## The Sutra Kritanga Sutra:
**Verse 19:**
**Shadow:** The mendicant who engages in disputes and speaks harshly, his purpose (moksha) and the path to it (restraint) are destroyed. A wise person should not engage in disputes.
**Meaning:** The one who engages in disputes and speaks harshly, their purpose of liberation and the path to it, restraint, are destroyed. Therefore, a wise and discerning seeker should never engage in disputes.
**Commentary:** To show the faults that should be avoided, the Sutra-maker gives this advice: Dispute is strife, and the one who engages in it is called a disputant. Such a mendicant, who is prone to disputes, speaks harshly or fearfully. For such a person, liberation and restraint, which are the means to it, are destroyed. This means that the great merit earned through long periods of arduous penance is destroyed in an instant by engaging in disputes and speaking words that harm others. As it is said:
"The merit earned through penance, restraint, and celibacy, do not destroy it through disputes, O wise ones."
Therefore, a wise person, who understands the difference between right and wrong, should not even think about engaging in disputes.
**Verse 20:**
**Shadow:** The one who dislikes cold water, has no vows, and avoids actions that bind karma, is called a Samayika by the omniscient ones. The one who does not eat from a householder's vessel is also called a Samayika.
**Meaning:** The mendicant who dislikes cold water, has no vows, and avoids actions that bind karma, is called a Samayika by the omniscient ones. The one who does not eat from a householder's vessel is also called a Samayika.
**Commentary:** Cold water is water that is not boiled. The mendicant who avoids such water is one who avoids unboiled water. Such a mendicant has no vows or commitments that bind karma. The word "lavan" refers to karma, and "avasappina" means one who avoids actions that bind karma. Such a mendicant, who is free from vows and avoids actions that bind karma, is called a Samayika, which means one who is in a state of equanimity.