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BOOK 2, LECTURE 5.
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This constant, permanent, eternal, true Law has been taught by wise men who comprehend all things. Thus a monk abstains from (the five cardinal sins): slaughter of living beings, &c., (and of vices, all down to) the sin of wrong belief. He does not clean his teeth with a tooth-brush, he does not accept collyrium, emetics, and perfumes. Such a monk does not act nor kill, he is free from wrath, pride, deceit, and greed, he is calm and happy. The Venerable One says that such a (monk) is well controlled and restrained, does avoid and renounce sins, is not active, but careful and thoroughly wise. (11)
Thus I say.
FIFTH LECTURE,
CALLED
FREEDOM FROM ERROR.
A very clever (monk) who practises the vow of chastity, should not adopt the following (heretical) doctrines, nor behave badly in this religion. (1)
He should not believe that (this world) is without beginning or without end, eternal or not eternal, according to the argumentation (of heretics)1. (2)
From these alternatives you cannot arrive at
1 The Gainas decide all such questions with the help of the syâdvâda, which in an admirable way removes all difficulties; e. g. the world is eternal as far as that part is concerned which is
