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of karma and a special sort of pondering over the consequences of sensuality and possessiveness, they stops hankering after them.
2.39 esa anagaretti pavuccati.
Such person is called a houseless monk.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 39
The genuine monk is he who conquers greed by non-greed and does not covet the sensual objects and possessions.
2.40 aho ya rao ya paritappamāṇe kālākālasamuṭṭhāi, samojogaṭṭhi aṭṭhālobhi, ālumpe sahasakkāre, viņivitthacitte, ettha satthe puno-puno. Pining day and night, exerting timely and untimely, hankering for acquisitions, greedy for worldly things, addicted to theft and robbery with mind fixed on family and sensual gratification, he is virtually a weapon of violence to living beings, time and again.
Bhāṣyam Sutra 40
Previously in sutra 3, the description concerned an aspirant endowed with fortitude. The present sutra relates to the person devoid of fortitude. He cannot abandon greed, sensuality and possession. He is, therefore, subject to suffering and misery (vide sūtra 2 and 3).
2.41 se aya-bale, se nai-bale, se mitta-bale, se pecca-bale, se deva-bale, se raya-bale, se cora-bale, se atihi-bale, se kivaṇa-bale, se samaṇa-bale. Such person bankers after various powers: power of the body, of the kith and kin, of friends, of life hereafter, of gods, of kings, of thieves, of guests, of pitiable persons and of ascetics.
Bhāṣyam Sutra 41
A person acquires a number of power for leading his life:
1. Power of the body - A person tainted by greed take wine and meat for nourishing his body and for amusement.
2. Power of the kith and kin and friends - Under the impression that if his relatives and friends become powerful, he would gain strength, he desires for augmenting their power.
3. Power of life hereafter and power of gods - He performs animal sacrifice for the next world such as heaven and for appeasing gods.
4. Power of kings - He serves the king for livelihood and victory.
5. Power of thieves - He serves the interest of thieves for sharing the spoils of theft.
6. Power of guests, pitiable men, ascetics - He gives donation to guests,* the pitiable and the monks in order to gain fortune, fame and religious merit.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अक्टूबर-दिसम्बर, 2003
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