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Fifty Seven Learning
1. He who always resides with the preceptor, who practises
meditation and austerities, who has religious zeal and ardour for study, who is pleasant in action and sweet in speech deserves to be instructed.
- Utta. Sū. 11.14 2. Pride, anger, carelessness, illness and idleness are the five obstacles in the path of acquiring knowledge.
- Utta. Sū. 11.3
3. The eight conditions that define a person as worthy of
acquiring knowledge are : (a) not to indulge in ridiculous gossip, (b) not to lose control of the mind and the senses, (c) not to disclose secrets of others, (d) not to be indisciplined, (e ) not to be blameworthy, (f) not to be covetous, ( g ) not to be short-tempered, (h ) not to forsake truth.
- Utta. Sū. 11.4-5
4. By scriptural study, one acquires knowledge, has concen
tration of mind, is fixed in religion and helps others to be so fixed. Thus by studying multifarious sūtras he becomes absorbed in the contemplation of what is expounded therein.
- Daśa. Sū. 9.4.3 5. Just as a lamp lights hundreds of other lamps and yet re
mains lighted so are the Acāryās who enlighten others and remain enlightened themselves.
- Utta. Ni. 8
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