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8. A true monk is one who has no yearnings, who is indiffer
ent to this world and the hereafter, whose diets and movements are proper and who is free from passions.
- Pra. Sā. 3.26
9. The monk who is lacking in scriptural knowledge neither knows his self nor the things other than his self.
- Pra. Sā. 3.33 10. Unlike other persons, the self-realised monk sees through the eyes of the Āgamas.
- Pra. Sā. 3.34 11. The karmic bondage destroyed by an un-enlightened soul
by practising austerities in crores of births, is achieved only in one breath by an awakened soul practising the three restraints.
- Pra. Sā. 3.38 12. He who looks at both straw and gold alike, is said to be truly initiated.
- Bo. Pā. 47 13. A great monk eats only for the sustenance of life and not for the pleasure of it.
-- Utta. Sū. 35.17 Even after becoming a monk, if the passions like anger etc. are not controlled, his monkhood is useless like the flower of sugarcane plant.
— Daśa. Ni. 301
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The exaltation of forgiveness, humility, simplicity, greedlessness, modesty, forbearance and the faithful observation of the prescribed code of conduct are the hall mark of a monk.
- Daśa. Ni. 349
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