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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKIRŅAKA : 61
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Blessed are those monks, who are always unattached, engrossed in following the words of the Lord Jina, who have subsided their passions and who peregrinate at will® without the feeling of ownership and attachment (with anyone or anything). Engrossed in the pursuit of the path of spiritual salvation, those monks are blessed who constantly contemplate righteousness and are unconcerned about this world and the other and about the life and death. Even at the time of one's death the wise must vomit (give-up) false-belief and seek the right one. Oh ! those endowed with patience are blessed who, at the time of their death, present themselves for voluntary peaceful death and without succumbing to passions and extricating themselves from the fear of death, shed falsebelief. The wise must, first of all, criticize and condemn the sinful acts done earlier, in the presence of the master and then follow ordainment as a monk etc., in the prescribed order.
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Whatever penitence the master awards must be accepted by saying 'icchāmi'* (I wish) and adding, “you have saved me.
Staying at one place increases attachment, therefore, the monks
always peregrinate. They do not stay at one place for long except for the rainy sason. They move aboutonly in groups, because to move singly is forbidden in this age. The monks move at will, but
the Lords' peregrinations are unwilled. * While accepting the penitence awarded by the the master, the disciple
bows to him with the recital of 'Icchāmi khamasamano'. Here, ‘icchāmi’ is indicative of that practice.
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