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42.
Je puvvuţthai, ņo pacchă-șivāi. Je puvvutthāi, paccha-nivåi. Je no puvvutthāí, ņo pacchă-șivai. Some persons rise up and continue awakened life long - they never fall down.
Some persons do rise up, but fall down afterwards. Some persons neither rise up at all nor fall down afterwards.
ANNOTATION 42. There are two possible behavioural patterns of those who have renounced the world. Some sādhakas keep up the same zealous leonine spirit with which they renounce, while others, although renouncing with leonine spirit, practise it with a craven cowardly one.
For example, Dhanya and Salibhadra were initiated by Bhagavān Mahāvira. They passed their ascetic life in spiritual studies, meditation and practising austerities, and finally attained death through 'fast unto death' together with the observance of perfect equanimity. This is an example of the person rising up and remaining awakened life-long.
On the other hand, example of the second category is found in the lives of Pundarika and Kundarika. They were brothers. Kundarika got initiated into ascetic life. Later on, when he became ill, king Pundarika arranged for his medical treatment. Kundarika recovered, but at the same time, he became lax in the observance of the monastic conduct. He abandoned the ascetic life and returned to the worldly life. This is an illustration of the person rising up and then falling down.
The third category is that of a person who never renounces the worldly life.
४३.सेवि तारिसए सिया, जे परिण्णाय लोगमणुस्सिओ। 43. Sevi tārissae siyā, je pariņnāya logamaņussio. 43. A monk who, after renouncing (the worldly life), -
again takes recourse to it, is as good (as a person leading the worldly life).
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