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BOOK I, LECTURE I, CHAPTER 3.
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'There are three ways of committing sins: by one's own activity, by commission, by approval (of the deed). (26)
'These are the three ways of committing sins. Thus by purity of the heart one reaches Nirvâna. (27) 'A layınan may kill his son (during a famine) and eat him; a wise (monk) who partakes of the meat, will not be defiled by the sin'.' (28)
The mind of those who sin in thoughts is not pure; they are wrong, they do not conduct themselves carefully2. (29)
Men attached to pleasure, who think that the above-mentioned doctrines will save them, commit sins. (30)
As a blind-born man getting into a leaky boat, wants to reach the shore, but is drowned during the passage3, so some unworthy, heretical Sramanas wish to get beyond the Circle of Births, but they are whirled round in it. (31, 32)
Thus I say.
THIRD CHAPTER.
If a monk should eat forbidden food which a pious (layman) has prepared for some guest, and which food has been mixed up with even thousand (times more
is wanting the Karman is still produced; however, it does not take a firm hold of the soul, but merely touches' it. This is of course the opinion of the Kriyâvâdins.
1 According to Silânka the father too would not be guilty; but this interpretation is against good sense and grammar.
2 This is the answer of the Siddhântin to the foregoing propositions.
3 The same verse recurs below, I, 11, 30.
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