Agam 30 Prakirnak 07 Gacchachar Sutra

Author(s): D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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GACCHĀCĀRA PRAKĪRŅAKA : 31
The monastic group in which the monks do not rouse others' passions for fear of disturbing their monastic practices and for fear of worldly wandering, is the true monastic group.
The monastic group in which the rise of passions, whether with or without reason, is checked and its rise is begged pardon for, is the true monastic group.
O' Gautama! the monastic group in which there a number of canon-learned monks who constantly fear any kind of hindrance in their practice of righteous conduct, penance, charity and pious reflection, is called the true monastic group.
O' Gautama! one must leave the monastic group in which the monks make use of any of these five types of agencies of violence towards the living - pounding pit, flour mill, hearth-stove and water-well, etc - body, mind and speech.
One must not live in a monastic group in which even white robed monks practice violence but in stead live in a group in which the monks are endowed with virtuous conduct.
O' Ocean of virtues (Gautama)! the monastic group, in which the monks indulge in the activities of buying and selling things and have become corrupt of their monastic practices, must be left like poison.
104. O' Gautama! leaving the monks who are attached to violence and act against the teachings of the Lords Prophets one must live amongst those that are righteous.