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(413) An attentive monk should control his speech as soon as it is inclined towards the thought of evil expression efforts for evil expression and evil expression.
(414) An attentive monk should bring under control his body as soon as it is inclined towards a mental plan for causing misery,collection of impliments to others to cause misery to others and action causing misery to others.
(415) As a fence protects a field, a ditch or a rampart protects a city, so the guptis (i.e.control of mind,speech and body) protect a monk from sins.
(416) A monk who practises these eight mother-precepts by his righteous conduct is a wise person who will be liberated quickly from all bondages of mundane existence.
27.PRECEPTS ON OBLIGATORY DUTIES
(417) He who contemplates over the pure nature of soul after renouncing all alien states of mind, becomes really engrossed in himself; this act is called a (real) "obligatory duty".
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