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302.
SAMANASUTTAM-(23)
Of the Householder's Mode of Life
301. (Acaryas) indeed call him Sravaka (householder) who, having attained spiritual awakening and the like, listens to the superb values of conduct daily from the saints.
Translated by
Dr. Kamal Chand Soganl
The person whose comprehension has become clear through spiritual awakening and who abandons all the (seven kinds of) vicious habits along with the consumption of five Udambara fruits (some fruits with living organisms), (he) has been styled 'Sravaka' (householder) endowed with spiritual awakening.
303. Gambling, drinking, hunting, harshness in speech, callousness in punishment, malpractices in monetary matters, and coital contact with woman (or man) other than one's own wife (or husband)-all these seven have been said to be vicious habits,
304. By eating meat, self-conceit aggravates; by reason of self-conceit, the person desires drink, then, he induleges in gambling. And, then, he absorbs the above-mentioned other vices too.
305. In the popular literature it has been said that because of eating meat even the learned persons who move in the sky by means of supernormal powers, fell on the ground (and became devoid of supernormal powers). Nobody, therefore, should use meat.
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306. Owing to drinking man becomes without any self-control and commits reprehensible actions. Consequently, he experiences endless suffering in this life and the next.
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