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31. Even things like caitya-worship (i. e. prayer, contemplation etc. in dedication to a revered personage or deity), providing restingplace to monks, and listening to scriptural discourses are yoga to a house-holder. What to say of the path that consists of (i. e. culminates in) spiritual enlightenment?
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32. Things like these are the subject-matter of instruction that is to be imparted to a house-holder; on the other hand, a monk is to be instructed in all those things that constitute his proper life-routine.
33. Thus a monk must stay with the preceptor and under his supervision, he must attend on the preceptor in a manner that is proper, and he must perform at due time his (daily) duties like - sweeping the residence.
34. Furthermore, he must not make secret of his capacities and must in every case act with a feeling of tranquillity; again, a command given by the preceptor should always be regarded by him as something that is in his best interests, as something that is a great favour done to him.
35. His observance of discipline must be without lapses, he must live on pure diet received through begging conducted purely (i. e. conducted in accordance with scriptural injunctions), he must duly undertake self-study and must remain in a mood of readiness in relation to death etc. All these constitute the subject-matter of instruction that is to be imparted to a monk.
36. To impart the above-enumerted instructions to unfit persons (i. e. to persons not authorized to enter the yoga-path) or to impart a different set of instructions to fit ones constitutes no proper instruction and is invariably a cause of bondage; on the other hand, a piece of properly imparted instruction constitutes yoga (inasmuch as it leads to mokṣa).
37. Behaviour unbecoming of a yogin on the part of the preceptor is to be treated as conducive to extermely evil consequences; for owing to such behaviour the qualities that go with a yogin are held in contempt, these persons (i. e. these pseudo-yogins) who are already in a state of. (spiritual) loss become further losers, and there is a reduction in the observance of religious practices.
38. After a piece of instruction (belonging to one of the aboveenumerated types) has resulted in spiritual enlightenment and the yoga-seeker concerned is on way to the higher stages of spiritual development it is usually (i. e. leaving aside the case of the most
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