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CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRṆAKA : 63
It is not necessary for the monks engaged in spiritual practices for the attainment of the ultimate goal of spiritual salvation to repent for the infringements incurred even while acting with vigilence, but the careless infringements must be repented for. Repentence purifies the living being who is given to sloth. That repentence is like the elephant driver's hook for guiding his conduct.
"People with a thorn (guilt) are not pure", so said the omniscient Lord. Therefore, to gain freedom from the eternal cycle of worldly births and deaths, criticism and condemnation are the best means.
By dying with the thorn of guilt even once the living beings wander in this extremely frightening world again and again.
If a monk, who has observed five types of vigilences and three types of self-controls for a long time, also violates righteousness at the time of his death, he, too, is called a violator of the faith.
If a person who lives a life full of indulgence, too, becomes renounced in the end i.e. at the time of his death, that vigilent aspirant has been said to be the right follower of the faith.
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While lying on the death bed the disciple, after criticizing and denouncing himself in front of the master and attaining purity of thought, should contemplate that only the eternal soul, endowed with knowledge and perception is his, and that eerything else that gives rise to attachment is external to himself.
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