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(401) Similarly, he should not call an one-eyed person as one-eyed, and eunuch as eunuch, a diseased person as diseased or a thief as thief.
(402) Carefulness in speech (bhāşāsamiti) consists in avoiding slanderous, ridiculous and speeches blaming others, self-praise or incredible stories. Such speeches conduce neither to the good of oneself nor that of others.
(403) A wise monk would speak what he has seen; his speech should be brief, free from ambiguity, clearly expressed, free from prattle and incapable of causing anxiety.
(404) It is difficult to find faultless alms-givers; it is more difficult to find one who lives on faultless begging;one who gives faultless alms and the one who lives on faultless begging, both will attain happy state in the next birth.
(405) The monk,who begs for a meal,an implement or a bedding in a manner not vitiated by the defects pertaining to their sources, preparation and receiving, practises in a true sense the carefulness (samiti) in respect of begging for alms.
(406) A monk should not take food for the sake of (physical) strength, taste, bodily improvement or lustre; but only for acquisition of knowledge, self-restraint and meditation.
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