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28. A monk who is totally detached, calm and serene in his
mind, attains that blissful emancipation which even a Cakravarti ( universal monarch ) cannot ever have.
-- Bha. Ā. 1182
Thirty Nine Who is a śramana ?
1. One does not become a monk by merely tonsuring, nor a
Brāhmaṇa by reciting the Onkāra Mantra, nor a Muni by living in the forest, nor a hermit by wearing clothes woven out of the kusa grass.
- Utta. Sū. 25.31
2. A person becomes a monk by equanimity, a Brāhmaṇaby
his celibacy, a Muniby his knowledge and a hermit by his austerities.
- Utta. Sū. 25.32
3. A person becomes monk by his virtues and a pseudo-monk
by absence of virtues; therefore master all the virtues of a monk and be free from all the vices of one who is not a monk. A person who knowing his self through the self maintains equanimity towards attachment and aversion is worthy of veneration.
- Daśāśru. Sū. 9.3.11
4. A true monk maintains equanimity in his success and fail
ure, happiness and misery, life and death, blame and praise and honour and dishonour.
- Utta. Sū. 19.91
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