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BOOK 1, LECTURE 3, CHAPTER 2.
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Some low people who lead a life of iniquity, and entertain heretical opinions, being subject to love and hatred, injure a monk. (14)
Some fools in outlying countries take a pious monk for a spy or a thief, bind him, and insult him with angry words. (15)
A weak monk being hurt with a stick or a fist or a fruit, remembers his (kind) relations, just as a woman who in a passion has left (her husband and house). (16)
All these hardships are difficult to bear; the weak return to their house (when they cannot bear them), like elephants covered with arrows (break down). (17) Thus I say.
SECOND CHAPTER. There are some tender affections which monks cannot easily overcome. On their account some become disheartened, and are unable to practise control. (1)
His relations on seeing him will surround him and cry: Child, we have brought you up, (now) support us! O dear! why will you leave us ? (2) . “Child, your father is an old man; your sister is still very young; (and here), O dear, are your own brothers from the same mother; why will you leave us ? (3)
Support your mother and father, thus you will win this world ; it is a duty in this world to protect one's mother. (4)
The old people are kind-spoken; your sons, child, are very young; you have married your wife; (take care) that she will not go to another man. (5)
