Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
Do not be angry or become controlled by anger even when engaged in the study of the sacred scriptures. Even when engaged in excellent and supreme austerities, do not be proud or arrogant. It has been said that the great men who churned the eight types of pride also prohibited the pride of asceticism and austerity. One should diligently avoid the remaining places of pride. One should also not be attached to the delusion of greed. A sage adorned with such qualities is undoubtedly called a "Mahan" (great). Now, to reveal the reason for using the term "Shraman" (ascetic), it is said:
Here, an ascetic is one who is free from attachment, free from the desire for worldly pleasures, free from taking, free from violence, free from falsehood, free from sexual misconduct, free from anger, free from pride, free from delusion, free from greed, free from love, and free from hatred. Whoever is free from taking, whoever is the cause of hatred for the self, whoever is free from taking, whoever is free from violence, whoever is subdued, whoever is free from the body, is called an ascetic.
Commentary: Here, the ascetic who is present in the group of qualities like renunciation, etc., mentioned earlier, is also called an ascetic. It is said that even those who are endowed with these qualities are called ascetics. There is no excess in this statement. "Shrita" means attached, "Anishrita" means not attached. One who is not attached to the body, etc., is called "Anishrita". Similarly, "Nidan" means the cause, "Anidan" means without a cause. One who is free from the desire for worldly pleasures, who is free from the desire for the destruction of all karmas, and who is engaged in the practice of self-control is called "Anidan". "Adan" means to take, to accept, to perform the eight types of karmas. It is the attachment to the passions, the attachment to possessions, or the performance of actions with attachment. "Atipat" means violence, which means killing. One should know this violence through knowledge and understanding, and should avoid it through the knowledge of rejection. Similarly, the action should be applied in other cases as well. "Mrushavad" means false speech. One should know this false speech and avoid it. "Bahiddha" means sexual misconduct and attachment to possessions. One should know these two things properly and avoid them. These are the basic qualities. Now, describing the other qualities, it is said that anger is characterized by displeasure, pride is characterized by arrogance, delusion is characterized by deception, greed is characterized by selfishness, love is characterized by attachment, and hatred is characterized by the destruction of oneself and others. One should know these things properly and avoid them, as they are the path to the cycle of birth and death and the destruction of the path to liberation. Similarly, one should avoid any other action that leads to the accumulation of karma, which causes harm in this world and the next, and which is the cause of hatred for the self. One should avoid these actions, even before they occur, because they are the cause of harm. One should avoid all actions that are the cause of harm in both worlds, and should strive to be free from the performance of actions with attachment. One who is thus subdued, pure, free from the body, free from karmas, and free from the body is called an ascetic.