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110 ) DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
[ Ap. 1 this is the eighteenth thing:-There is a group of stanzas referring to these eighteen things:
When an ignoble man abandons religion for the sake of enjoyments, that ignorant fool becomes attached to them and does not know his future benefit. (1). When he has fallen back (to the householder's life), he becomes deprived of all religious practices and comes afterwards to repentance like Indra fallen down upon the earth. (2). When the monk, who is first adorable, becomes afterwards unadorable ( when he has reverted), he then repents like .& deity fallen from her seat. (3). When the monk, who is first fit to be worshipped, becomes afterwards unfit for it, he then repents like a king who is dethroned. (4). When the monk, who is first respectful becomes afterwards unfit . for respect, he then repents like a merchant interned in a
hamlet. (5). When such a monk, fallen from monkhood, passes his youth and becomes an old man, he then comes to repentance like a fish that has swallowed the bait. (6). When such a fallen monk is smitten down by the various anxieties of his bad family, he then repents like an elephant tied down to a post. (7). When he is surrounded by wife and children and is full of a series of Mohaniya Karma, he then repents like an elephant sunk in mud. (8). (He may well think:-) Had I kept myself in monkhood prescribed by the Jina, I would have, to-day, become the Head of the group with spiritually developed mind and full of religious learning. (9). The condition of Great sages is indeed like that of denizens of heaven provided they find pleasure in that condition; if, however, they do not, the condition is similar to that in Great Hell. (10). Having known that monks delighted in monk hood have excellent happiness, parallel to that of gods, so also having known that monks not delighted in monkhood have worst misery like that in hell; a wise monk should find delight in monkhood. (11). People certainly despise the monk
