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DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
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( world) and the Aloka ( void ). (22). When one comes to know......... Aloka (void), then one curbs all activities and accepts the condition of absolute motionlessness. (23). When one curbs...... motionlessness, then one annilhilates Karma and goes to the place of Perfection being absolutely free from passion (or sin, or dust of Karma ). (24). When one annibilates......passion, then one occupies & seat at the top of the world and becomes an eternally Perfect Being. (25).
Such a good condition, thus, is difficult to get fur & monk ( who is a monk in name only ) who has got & taste for pleasures, who is anxious for happiness, who untimely sleeps (over the instructions for a monk or who sleeps on improper occasions ) and who wasbes his hands and feet with water. (26). To such & monk, however, who is devoted to the merit of penance, who is straightforward in his pursuit, who is full of forgiveness and selfrestraint and who has conquered the twentytwo troubles, blessed condition is quite easy to obtain. (27). Such persons, as like penance, self-restraint, forgiveness and celibacy, proceed quickly to the residences of gods even though they start (on their journey by accepting monkhood) much later. (28). With a proper Faith and always striving, never should you, oh monk, do injustice to or spoil monkhood by action after having undertaken the monk's life wbich is so very difficult to obtain. (29). Thus I say.
CHAPTER V-1. When the proper time for begging has arrived, the monk without any perplexity or hankering should seek eatables and drinkables by taking steps given below:-(1). The monk, moving out for alms in a village or a town should move slowly without any mental agitation, with his
