Agam 30 Prakirnak 01 Gachchhachar Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Gachchhachar-Prakirnak-7/1- Gatha-119
astrology and mesmerism, where they do not look after ill and newly ordained nuns, where they do not do the doable (study, inspection, expiatory, retraction, etc.) and do the undoable (is a deplorable monastic order).
[120] Meaning- The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns are not vigilant, where they do not show due affection towards the guest nuns who come calling, where they wear coloured clothes and keep fancy sweeps (is a deplorable monastic order.
[121] Meaning- The monastic group of nuns in which self-willed nuns moves about, gesture and act in ways that are enough to distract even the older men, when to say of the younger ones (is a deplorable order)?
[122] Meaning- The monastic group of nuns in which the self-willed nuns wash their faces, limbs and arm-pits often, where they show undue interest in various musical tunes and beats is a deplorable order.
[123] Meaning-O' Gautam! The monastic group of nuns in which the old and the young nuns sleep alternately is a good monastic order, Such a monastic order supports right-knowledge and right-conduct.
[124] Meaning- O' Gautam! The nuns who often wash their necks, who thread the beads or pearls in to rosaries or necklaces for the householders, who give their clothes to them and keep worrying about their mundane matters, truly, not nuns.
[125] Meaning- The nuns who stays in a place where, nearby, there is a heavy traffic of horses and mules or where they urinate and defecate or where the lecherous men keep frequenting the prostitutes is not a true nun.
[126] Meaning- O' Gautam! The nuns who are ever-ready to indulge in violence towards the six categories of the living, who indulge in gossip in the name of religious discourses, who order the householders about (for the jobs they are supposed to do themselves), who make use of their (house-holders) seats and beds and who maintain intimate relations with them are not the true nuns.
[127] Meaning- The senior nun who treats her own disciple nuns and those of the other senior nuns who come to them for studying as equal, who does not neglect to motivate her junior nuns, who is endowed with the qualities of the head nun, who has the noble qualities to influence the gathering (of monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen followers) possesses the ability to become the head nun.
[128] Meaning- Senior nun who is learned, who is generally humble & respectful towards the gathering of nuns but who awards severe punishments when the occasion demands, who is always engaged in scriptural studies and meditation, who shelters her flock and maintains an appropriate collection of clothes and other monastic equipage for her group possesses the ability to become the head nun.
[129] Meaning- O' Gautam! What is the use of staying in monastic group where nuns enter in to arguments with the monks and getting furious, indulge in untoward talk?
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