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who is mature both in knowledge and age can move about on purpose practising asceticism in solitariness.
६३. वयसा वि एगे बुइया कुप्पंति माणवा। 63. Vayasă vi ege buiya kuppamti māņavā. 63. (Immature) persons are easily susceptible to anger
produced by (the merest adverse) remarks.
ANNOTATION 63. Once upon a time, an immature ascetic was going somewhere. Seeing him, someone said to another person, "Who is this fellow?"
The other person remarked, rather disparagingly, "Why, of course, the Sudra (i, e, the lowly born person).
The immature sādhu on hearing this got irate.
An immature person may be roused to temper by the merest touch. Once a porter carrying luggage on his head bumped into an immature monk. The latter got furious and said, "Are you blind? Can't you see properly?"
The porter also got infuriated and they came to blows.
There was another immature sådhu, who acted negligently. The teacher gave him a bit of his mind, whereupon he asked "What on earth have I done? Why did you insult me in the presence of all these sådhus? Do not other sådhus ever indulge in such negligent behaviour?" And he went on grumbling. He could not notice his own negligence due to his intense wrath.
Such immature persons cannot develop sādhanā by moving about solitarily.
६४. उन्नयमाणे य गरे, महता मोहेण मुमति।
Unnaya māne ya nare, mahatā moheņa mujjhati. 64. An immature one becomes stupefied with intense de
lusion on being praised.
६५. संबाहा बहवे भुज्जो-भुज्जो दुरतिक्कमा अजाणतो अपासतो। 65. Sambāhā bahave bhujjo-bhujjo duratikkamā ajānato
apasato.
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