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## Vaitaliya Study - Those who understand and experience it as it is, they alone know what their benefit, welfare or well-being is from all sides - from everywhere. Others do not know.
**Do not be a storyteller, a questioner, or a propagator.**
**Knowing the supreme Dharma, one should be a doer of good deeds and not be possessive.**
**Commentary:**
A restrained, ordained person should not be a storyteller, especially not one who tells stories about worldly matters or those that are against Dharma. He should not be a questioner, answering worldly questions or predicting the future. He should not be a propagator, suggesting ways to bring rain or earn wealth. What should he do then? The commentary explains: "Knowing, understanding, having no answer, being unanswerable, having understood the Dharma of Shruta and Charitra, he should be a doer of good deeds, avoiding unnecessary talk and engaging in righteous actions." This is because the fruit of Dharma is to be found in the avoidance of unnecessary talk and the practice of righteous actions. He should not be possessive, thinking "This is mine, I am its owner."
**Do not praise the hidden, do not boast of your knowledge to the ignorant.**
**Those who have accepted the restraint that destroys the eight karmas, their wisdom is respected in the world. They are the ones who are engaged in Dharma.**