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Sûkilomasutta is ended.
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6. DHAMMAKARIYASUTTA OR KAPILASUTTA.
The Bhikkhus are admonished to rid themselves of sinful persons and advised to lead a pure life.
1. A just life, a religious life, this they call the best gem, if any one has gone forth from house-life to a houseless life. (273)
2. But if he be harsh-spoken, and like a beast delighting in injuring (others), then the life of such a one is very wicked, and he increases his own pollution. (274)
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3. A Bhikkhu who delights in quarrelling and is shrouded in folly, does not understand the Dhamma that is preached and taught by Buddha. (275)
4. Injuring his own cultivated mind, and led by ignorance, he does not understand that sin is the way leading to hell. (276)
5. Having gone to calamity, from womb to womb, from darkness to darkness, such a Bhikkhu verily, after passing away, goes to pain. (277)
6. As when there is a pit of excrement (that has become) full during a number of years,--he who should be such a one full of sin is difficult to purify. (278)
7. Whom you know to be such a one, O Bhikkhus, (a man) dependent on a house, having sinful desires, sinful thoughts, and being with sinful deeds and objects, (279)
8. Him do avoid, being all in concord; blow him away as sweepings, put him away as rubbish. (280)
9. Then remove as chaff those that are no Samanas, (but only) think themselves, blowing away those that have sinful desires and those with sinful deeds and objects. (281)
10. Be pure and live together with the pure, being thoughtful; then agreeing (and) wise you will put an end to pain. (282)
Dhammakariyasutta is ended.
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7. BRÂHMANADMAMMIKASUTTA.
Wealthy Brâhmanas come to Buddha, asking about the customs of the ancient Brâhmanas. Buddha describes their mode of life and the change wrought in them by seeing the king”s riches, and furthermore, how they induced the king to commit the sin of
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having living creatures slain at sacrifices. On hearing Buddha”s enlightened discourse the wealthy Brâhmanas are converted. Compare Sp. Hardy”s Legends, p. 46.
So it was heard by me:
At one time Bhagavat dwelt at Sâvatthî, in Getavana, in the park of Anâthapindika. Then many wealthy Brâhmanas of Kosala, decrepit, elderly, old, advanced in age, or arrived at extreme old age, went to Bhagavat, and having gone to him they talked pleasantly with him, and after having had some pleasant and remarkable talk with him, they sat down apart. Sitting down apart these wealthy Brâhmanas said this to Bhagavat: ”O venerable Gotama, are the Brâhmanas now-a-days seen (engaged) in the Brâhmanical customs (dhamma) of the ancient Brâhmanas
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Bhagavat answered: ”The Brâhmanas now-a-days, O Brâhmanas, are not seen (engaged) in the Brâhmanical customs of the ancient Brâhmanas.”
The Brâhmanas said: ”Let the venerable Gotama tell us the Brâhmanical customs of the ancient Brâhmanas, if it is not inconvenient to the venerable Gotama.”
Bhagavat answered: ”Then listen, O Brâhmanas, pay great attention, I will speak.”
”Yes,” so saying the wealthy Brâhmanas listened to Bhagavat. Bhagavat said this:
1. The old sages (isayo) were self-restrained, penitent; having abandoned the objects of the five senses, they studied their own welfare. (283)
2. There were no cattle for the Brâhmanas, nor gold, nor corn, (but) the riches and corn of meditation were for them, and theey kep…
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