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Gachchhachar-Prakirnak-7/1- Gatha-53
He neither prides, nor lusts, nor is given to vanity, nor does he argue. There, he is forgiving sense-conquered protector of the self (virtues) and the others' and remains engaged in the pursuit of the detached monastic path. He observes tenfold monastic codes and restrains him to the observance of essential monastic practices.
[54-55] Meaning- That monastic group is the real monastic group where the disciples do not envy, where they do not condemn the guru even when they are at the end of their tether, where they do not defame the group, where they do not do anything undoable and do not decry the precepts preached by the Lord Jinas. Even when they are exited from the group by the guru after seven tongue lashing and harshly worded admonitions.
[56] Meaning-O' Gautam! That monastic group is the real monastic group where the disciples accept the most harshly worded, bitter and hard to obey commands of the guru by uttering 'taha-tti' (it is so, O Master).
[57-58] Meaning- Humble disciple is not only unattached from desire for clothes and pots but he is also detached from his own body. He is able to avoid forty two flaws of seeking food whether he gets it in the process or he may not. He does not seek food either for enhancing his appearance, or for taste, or for body-powers, or for pride but for carrying the load of his monastic responsibilities just as the cart-axle carries its (the cart's) entire weight.
[59] Meaning. The six reasons for which a monk takes food are:- (1) To mitigate the pangs of hunger, (2) To serve his guru, (3) To be able to undertake monastic peregrinations, (4) To properly observe monasticism, (5)To keep alive and (6) To practice (by undertaking pious contemplation) and propagate the faith.
[60] Meaning- O' Gautam! That monastic group is the real monastic group where the distinction of the elders and the juniors is properly maintained, the elders are bowed to and venerated, so much so that someone even a day senior in monastic hierarchy, is not flouted.
[61] Meaning- Gautam! Monastic group in which the monks do not thoughtlessly accept the food brought by the nuns even when there is a danger to their lives, due to severe famine, is the real monastic group.
[62] Meaning- The monastic groups in which very old toothless monks also do not look at the ladies' physiology and do not indulge in loose talk with the nuns is the real monastic group.
[63] Meaning- O' Vigilant monks! Consider the contact with the nuns as forbidden as the contact with fire and poison. The monk that maintains contact with them soon earns defamation.
[64] Meaning- Even if an old, austere, canon-learned and true monk keeps the company of the nuns, he certainly earns a bad name.
[65] Meaning- will a young and ordinary monk not undertaking severe penance --
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