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OF THE PROOF OF EXERTION
As long as ye maintain attachment to property, sentient or insentient, even small, or approve of it, ye shall not be delivered from suffering.
Telling lie, indulging in sexual intercourse, acquiring personal property and taking things not given—know these to be the cause of bondage in this world and abstain ye from them.
A bhikṣu is he who is not proud of birth and beauty, nor of gain and learning and hath forsaken all delusions and is devoted to Spiritual Discipline and Divine Contemplation.
A bhikṣu is he who is ever regardless of his body, and like the earth, who is not
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Suratww.umaragyanbhandar.com
