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DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
[ Ch. IV
The monk or the nun...awake, tread or stand, sit or Jie upon seeds or things placed on seeds, sprouted seeds or things placed on them, grown seeds or things covering grown seeds, green vegetables or things placed on them, cut up thing or things placed on then, living organisms or thing full of living organisms like wood-insects etc., he should not make another person tread etc.; nor should he consent to another doing the same. He should say-as long as I am alive etc....... abandon such inclination on the part of my soul. (11),
Were the monk or the nun......awake, to find an insect or & gnat, Kunthu or an ant on his hand or foot, on arm or thigh, on head or garment, on begging-bowl or mantle, on Pādapunchana or on duster, on Gochha or on pot, on rod or on footstool, on plank or on bed, on bedsheet or on any other article allowed for him, he should very carefully inspect it, take it and cast it away at a solitary corner; he should never put them together and hurt them. (12).
Moving without carefulness, a monk causes injury to breathing animals and other living organisms; thereby he incurs sinful Karman which results into a bitter fruit for him (1). Standing without carefulness & monk causes etc. (2.) Sitting etc.......(3). Sleeping etc....... (4). Eating etc. (5). Speaking etc.......(6).
Then how should a monk move? how should he stand ? how should he sit? how should he sleep? eating in what way or speaking in what way does he not incur sin ? (7).
He should move with carefulness, stand with carefulness, he should sit with carefulness, sleep with carefulness : eating and speaking with carefulness, he does not incur a sinful Karman (8). : No sinful activity is incurred by one who sees all living beings as his own self, who carefully inspects all living
