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DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
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of (i) the loss of celibacy, (ii) destruction of life consequent on injury done to living organisms, (iii) obstruction in the way of other mendicants, and, lastly (iv) the anger of the householders. (58). ( As the monk has to avoid from & distance any ground for loss of chastity or any other suspicion in the mind of the householder), the monk should Carefully avoid this item which gives rise to bad behaviour, entailing breach of celibacy or danger from women. (59).
In any of the following three cases, there is allowed sitting in the householder's house-in the case of a monk overpowered with old age, or in the case of a monk who is ill, or in the case of a monk practising penance. (60). If a monk were to take bath, whether he be ill or healthy, he falls down from the proper behaviour and his monkhood becomes abandoned. (61). There are many subtle living organisms in salt soil or cracks or clefts which a monk is likely to flood with water when he is taking bath even though it be with pure (i. e. heated) water. (62). The monks, therefore, never bathe in cold or heated water having undertaken the terrible Vow of abstinence from bath as long as they are alive. (63). They never have bath, or sandal ointment, or Lodhra flowers, or lotuses for the sake of anointing their limbs. (64). What is the use of decoration to a monk who is naked, shavenheaded, having long hair and nails, and free from sexual intercourse ? (65). A monk contracts very sticky ( or obstinate ) Karma resulting from bodily decoration by virtue of which he falls in this dreadful ocean of worldly life so difficult to be crossed. (66). The enlightened monks consider the mind also in the same way (i. e. full of fault ) when it is inclined to decoration; the saviours of the world had never such a mind as is full of fault in these ways. (67). With a vision free from delusion, devoted to penance, full
