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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRṆAKA: 47
A person without the right conduct can have the rightbelief just as Kṛṣṇa and Śrenika had, but the one who is righteous in his conduct has the right-belief as a rule.
Even then it is better for the unrighteous that he preserve his right-belief, because a person without the right conduct may liberate, but one without the right-belief can never attai such a state of spiritual purity (siddhatva).
Even a monk of excellent conduct may fall from the right --belief due to the rise of false attitude towards the faith and the conduct. Then, what to say of the right-beliefed householder practitioner ? (Meaning that he may also fall from it).
One, whose intellect is always absorbed in the practice of fivefold vigilences (Pañcāsamiti) and threefold selfcontrol (Trigupti) and who does not have attachment or aversion, his conduct is pure.
You must diligently practice the trio of right-belief, right-knowledge and right-conduct without giving in to
sloth.
I have briefly narrated these basic characteristics of the right conduct. Now calmly listen to the basic characteristics of voluntary peaceful death (Samadhimaraṇa).
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