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## Āgama Sūtra 39, Cheda Sūtra-5, 'Mahānishīth'
**Studying/Purpose/Sūtra Number Tasting.** Not seeing, not hearing, light, afterlife, both worlds, those with opposite faults, uttering such abusive words like 'Makar-Jakar Mammo Chachcho'. Accusing falsely, causing disgrace, putting a stain on someone, having the tendency to preach Dharma without knowing the scriptures. Consider that to be tongue-skill. O Bhagvant! Does skillfulness arise from speaking? O Gautam! Yes, it does. O Bhagvant! Then should one not preach Dharma? O Gautam! One who does not know the difference between careful-blameless speech and other speech, does not have the right to speak, then where is the space for preaching Dharma? Sūtra-625
And know that there are two types of body skillfulness, skillful effort and skillful adornment. Among them, the monk who is like a dwelling place for this group of worms, food for birds and dogs. Decaying, falling, being destroyed, such a nature, impure, impermanent, worthless, such a body is always nourished by food etc. and such a body is made to exert itself, but does not perform the extremely difficult, fierce, painful, severe austerities of penance, including knowledge-vision etc., which are rare in hundreds of births, that is called effort skillfulness.
And then, the one who is skillful in adornment is also of many types - in this way - anointing the body with oil, massaging, applying paste, getting a body massage, bathing, applying oil, rubbing away dirt, eating tambok, giving sunbath, perfuming the body with fragrant things, polishing teeth, making them soft, making the face beautiful, wearing flowers or garlands, making hair, using shoes-sandals, moving with pride, speaking, laughing, sitting, getting up, falling, pulling, wearing clothes in such a way that the adornment of the body is visible, taking a staff, all these are considered to be skillful adornment monks. This skillful monk is a destroyer of preaching, has evil consequences, has bad signs, is a skillful adornment monk who does evil deeds that are not worth seeing. Thus, the chapter on vision skillfulness is complete. Sūtra - 626
Now know that there are many types of character skillfulness in the original qualities and the subsequent qualities. Among them, the five great vows and night-time food are the six original qualities. One who is careless about those six, in that, Prāṇātipāt, i.e., killing beings with one sense, two, three, four, five senses, in the form of earth, water, fire, air, plants, causing them pain, tormenting them.
There are two types of Mṛṣāvāda - subtle and gross. In that, 'Payla Ullamarue'
One monk was sleeping during the day - eating a snack. Another monk said to him - why are you sleeping during the day? He replied that I am not sleeping. Then sleep came again. He started eating the snack, then the monk said - don't sleep. Then the reply came - I am not sleeping. So this is subtle Mṛṣāvāda.
One monk went out in the rain. Another monk said - why are you going in the rain? He said - no, I am not going in the rain. Saying this, he started going. Here, the word Vāsṛdhātu is used, so if there is a word, then I am not going. Using such deceitful words is subtle Mṛṣāvāda.
One monk said at the time of food - eat food. He replied - I am full - saying this, he immediately started eating. Another monk asked - you said you just ate, and then you eat food. Then he said - did I not deny the restraint of the five great vows, including Prāṇātipāt? In this way, this is subtle Mṛṣāvāda due to the use of deceit. Subtle Mṛṣāvāda and Kanyālik etc. are called gross Mṛṣāvāda.
Taking without giving, its two divisions are subtle and gross. Among them, taking grass, stones, Raksakundī etc. is
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