SEVENTEENTH LECTURE.
THE BAD SRAMANA.
A Nirgrantha who has entered the order, who has learned the Law, who has received religious
discipline, and who has obtained the benefit of B dhi which is difficult to obtain, may perhaps afterwards begin to live as he likes. (1)
(He will say:) I have a good bed and wherewithal to cover me; I obtain food and drink; I know everything that comes to pass, friend; why then should I study, sir? (2)
He who, after entering the order, always sleeps, eats, and drinks as much as he likes, and lives comfortably, is called a bad Sramana. (3)
The sinner who despises the learning and discipline which his preceptor and teachers have taught him, is called a bad Sramana. (4)
He who does not, as he should, strive to please his preceptor and teachers, and does not, in his arrogance, treat them with respect, is called a bad Sramana. (5)
He who hurts living beings, seeds, and sprouts, who does not control himself, though he believes himself well-controlled, is called a bad Sramana. (6)
He who uses a bed, a plank, a chair, a seat, or his duster 1, without having well wiped these things, is called a bad Sramana. (7)
He who walks with great haste and without care, being overbearing and fierce, is called a bad Sramana. (8)
He who carelessly inspects things 1, throwing down his duster at random, not being attentive to the inspection of things, is called a bad Sramana. (9)
He who carelessly inspects things, his attention being absorbed by what he hears, who always slights his teachers, is called a bad Sramana. (to)
He who is deceitful, talkative, arrogant, greedy, who does not control himself, nor share (his food, &c. with those who are in want), and is not of an amiable disposition, is called a bad Sramana. (11)
He who is a controversialist, and ill-behaved, who perverts the truth, and delights in quarrels and contentions, is called a bad Sramana. (12)
He who sits down on a weak, shaking seat wherever he lists, and is not careful in sitting down, is called a bad Sramana. (13)
He who sleeps with dusty feet and does not inspect his couch, being careless about his bed, is called a bad Sramana. (14)
He who eats milk, curds, and other things produced from milk, and does not practise austerities, is called a bad Sramana. (15)
He who eats after sunset, and when admonished, makes an angry reply, is called a bad Sramana. (16)
He who leaves his own teacher, and follows heretical ones, who continuously changes his school 2, being of a bad disposition, is called a bad Sramana. (17)
He who has left his own house, and busies himself in another's house, who lives by fortune-telling, is called a bad Sramana. (18)
He who eats the food of his relations, and does not like living by alms 1, who reposes on the seat of the householder, is called a bad Sramana. (19)
Such a monk, who, like the heretics 2, does not protect himself from sins, who though having the appearance (of a monk) is the lowest among his worthy brethren, is despised in this world like poison; he is nobody in this world and in that beyond. (20)
But he who always avoids these sins, and is pious amongst his brethren, is welcomed in this world like nectar; he conquers this world and the next
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Thus I say.