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PATH OF LIDERATION
115 (298) In some case house-holders are superior to certain monks in respect of conduct. But as a whole monks are superior in conduct to the house-holder.
(299) So long as I am not able to take leave of home and become a monk with a shaven head, I accept, in the presence of monks, beloved of gods, to observe the twelve kinds of vows of a house-holder, viz. five small vows (Aņuvratas), and seven disciplinary (sikshāvratas) vows as prescribed for a layman.
(300) The religion of a house-holder consists in the observance of the five small vows and the seven disciplinary vows. A house-holder who observes all or some of the vows becomes a partial monk (i. e., a pious house-holder).
23. PRECEPTS ON HOUSEHOLDER'S RELIGION
(301) He is called a Śrāvaka (householder) who, being endowed with right faith, listens every day to the preachings of the monks about right conduct
(302) A pious householder is one who has given up (eating) five udumbar-fruits (like banyan, Pipala, fig (Anjeer), kathumara and pākar), is free from seven vices and is called Darśana Śrāvaka, a man whose intellect is purified by right faith.
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