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XII. A monk or a nun ... should ... carefully inspect and wipe hands, feet, arms, legs, belly, head, garment, bowl, cloth, hand-brush, broom, dust-brush, stick, bench, stool, bed, straw or any other utensil and softly remove any worm, insect, louse or ant [found on it]; it should not be brushed away rudely.
1.-6. He who walks, (stands, sits, and lies down, eats and speaks) carelessly, will hurt living beings. He binds evil Karman, that is his bitter reward. 7. How should he walk, stand, sit and lie down? In what manner shall he eat and speak in order that he may not bind evil Karman ? 8. He should walk, stand, sit, and lie down carefully; if he eats and speaks carefully, he does not bind evil Karman. 9. Evil Karman does not attach itself to a man who identifies himself with all beings [and by this] looks on the beings in the right manner, who has closed the doors of 'influence' and is content. 10. First knowledge, then charity: this is the stand-point of a fully controlled monk. What shall the ignorant monk do, or will he know what is wholesome and what is evil ? 11. When he has learnt, then he knows good and evil; when he has learnt, he knows both these, and he performs what is wholesome. 12. How shall he know self-control, who does not know the souls and the non-souls (and therefore] is ignorant of both ? 13. He will know self-control, who does know the souls and the non-souls (and therefore is acquainted with both. 14. If he knows good and evil, both these, then he knows the [cause of the) manifold ranks of all beings. 15. (Therefore), he knows merit and demerit, bondage and salvation. 16. (Therefore) he becomes disgusted with the pleasures of gods and men. 17. (Therefore) he gives up inward and outward connection. 18. (Therefore) he becomes tonsured and leaves [his] home. 19. (Therefore) he comes in contact with the highest safe-guard, the insuperable Dharma. 20. (Therefore, he puts off the dust of Karman, the [self-Jacquired dirt of ignorance. 21. (Then) he approaches to the all-pervading knowledge [and] intuition. 22. (Then), being a Jina [and] Kevalin, he knows the world and the "non-world”. 23. (Then) he stops the functions [of his body] and reaches the climax of a human being. 24. (Then) he destroys [the rest of his Karman and attains perfection.
