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Therefore, you take what is not given. You are therefor a-samyata (un-restrained), a-virata (vow-less), and bāla (ignorant) Other Faiths -0 Worthy Sadhus! You are a-samyata (un-restrained, a-virata (vow-less) and bala (ignorant).
Sthaviras ;-How? Why are we said to be a-samyata (unrestrained), a-virata (vowless), and bāla (ignorant) ?
Other Faiths: 0 Worthy Sadhus! While walking, you attack prithivikāya ( earth-bodied ) living beings--You strike them, you rub them, you mix them with other substances, you collect them together and them tear then asunder, you injure them and you destroy these living beings. By attacking and doing other destructive acts, you prove yourself to be a-samyata (un-restrained), a-virata (vow-less). and bāla (ignorant).
Sthaviras :-0 Worthy Men ! While walking, we do not attack Prithivi Kaya (earth-bodied) living beings, and we do not injure them. When we walk on the ground either with the object of providing for the necessaries of life to body i-e getting alms of food and drink-materials, going out for voiding urine, foeces etc or with the object of rendering service to diseased and disabled Sadhus, or when we walk on the ground while going to various localities, and villages and towns, we walk very carefully with gentle foot-steps so as to avoid killing small animals creeping on the ground We thereby do not attack the ground, and we do not kill prithivikaya ( earth-bodied ) living beings. But O Worthy Men You attack and destroy prithivi kaya (earth-bodied) living beings, and there fore, you are asamyata (un-restrained), a-virata (vow-less), and bâla (ignorant).
Other Faiths O Worthy Sadhus! According to your doctrine, what is in the process of going is not gone, what is being overstepped is not overstepped, and one desirous of reaching Rajagriha, has not reached it.
Sthaviras:-O Worthy Men' Such is not our doctrine. According to our doctrine, that which is in the process of going is
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