Agam 30 Prakirnak 01 Gachchhachar Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Gachchhachar-Prakirnak-7/1- Gatha-65
Who keeps the company of the nuns not come to be defamed? Meaning that such a monk will certainly earn a bad name.
[66] Meaning-Even if a monk is of stable mind, his inner self melts (his thoughts become lustful) in the company of the nuns just as the butter melts in the vicinity of fire.
[67] Meaning- Only that person can observe true celibacy that is always alert while in the company of women. One who is not so alert cannot be a true celibate.
[68] Meaning- Only that monk is said to be independent who is detached from all mundane objects. However, one who remains in contact with nuns is certainly slavish.
[69] Meaning- As a fly that falls in the sputum cannot take itself out of it, so does a monk that Keeps Company of the nuns cannot liberate himself.
[70] Meaning- For the monks there is no bondage like the nuns and for staying firm in the practice of the faith there is nothing like the right-knowledge.
[71] Meaning- The monastic groups in which even a monk endowed with many a supernatural power but even verbally corrupt of monasticism is awarded appropriate expiation by the guru, is the true monastic group.
[72] Meaning- The monastic groups in which the monks fear even touching the accumulated, purposefully prepared (for them) snatched, flawed and mixed food, (is the true monastic group).
[73] Meaning- The monastic groups in which the monks are careful in seeking and consuming food and in the observance of their monastic conduct, where they are humble and soft-spoken, where they do-not indulge in mocking and bantering, where they do-not quarrel, where they do-not indulge in inappropriate conduct and where they move about only in suitable seeking areas, (is the true monastic group).
[74] Meaning- The monastic groups in which monks undertake difficult penance and atonement by seeing, which even the Devendras - the kings of gods also stand in their awe, (is the true monastic group).
[75] Meaning- The monastic groups in which the earth-bodied, water-bodied, airbodied, fire-bodied, vegetation-bodied and other moving-bodied creatures are not hurt even under dire circumstances is the true monastic group.
[76] Meaning- O' Gautam! Know that the monk who sweeps and dusts the place of temporary stay with sweeps and brooms made of palm leaves and jute has no compassion towards the living beings.
[77] Meaning- The monastic group in which the monks do not drink even a drop of the untreated live water even when they are dying of thirst in the hottest summer, is the true monastic group.
[78] Meaning- The monastic group in which the monks drink only treated lifeless
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