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Avoidance of Intoxicants and Non-Possession
nissaggiya-päcittiya offence.1 The monks are not supposed to have any attachment for any worldly possessions, which are only symbolized in gold and silver and coins, that means detachment from all mundane objects, that is everything such as wife, children or servants etc. However, the difference between the Jaina and the Buddhist stand is obvious; the Jainas include this vow in the aṇuvratas of the laity, while the Buddhists make it exclusively for the monks, though for the laity too attachment for possessions is denounced. It is said that one who has attachment to land and other objects, money, gold and silver, cattle and horses, servants, wife and other relatives, and is obstructed by such desires is to face the dangerous calamities just as a boat with a small hole in it is ultimately to face disaster. Dhammapada also pronounces that one who establishes himself in aparigraha and tyāga would be called a Brāhmaṇa.4 Sutta Nipata stresses aparigraha by pointing out that parigraha is an obstacle to 'dhamma'." But by repeating the term parigraha again and again Buddha only meant an attachment and cleaving towards the objects and not the objects themselves. In his exhortation to Anathapindika, Buddha said, "It is not life
1. यो पन भिक्खु जातरूपरजतं उग्गण्हेय्य वा उग्गहापेय्य वा उपनिक्खित्त ar aifa, fafin qfafafa -Pārājika, p. 339. 2. जातरूपरजतपटग्गहणपटिविरतो समणो गोतमो, आमकघञ्ञ, पटिगहणा पटिविरतो-इत्थिकुमारिकपटिग्गहणापटिविरतो दासदासी पटिग्गहण अजेलक पटिग्गहण खेत्तवत्थु पटिग्गहण पटिविरतो 1 -Digha, vol. I, p. 7.
3. खेत्त ं वत्थु ं हिरञ्ञ वा गवास्सं दास पोरिसं, थियो बन्धु पुथू कामे, यो नरो अणुगिज्झति ।
-S. N., Kamasutta, 4, 5. ....अकिंचनं अनादानं तमहं ब्रूमि ब्राह्मणं । — Dhammapada, 396 5. निवेसनं यो मनसा अहासि परिग्गहा यस्स न सन्ति केचि,
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अनुपादियानो इध वा हुरं वा तथागतो अरहति पूरलास ।
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-S. N., Sundarikabhāradvājasutta, 16.
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