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Seven Lectures - Lecture 6

905

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit the action of another which relates to one's self, and produces karman.

906

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it;

907

If another (i. e. a householder) wipes (or rubs] the mendicant's feet;

908

If he kneads or strokes them;

909

If he touches or paints them;

910

If he smears or anoints them with oil, ghee, or marrow;

911

If he rubs or shampoos them with Lodhra, ground drugs, powder, or dye;

912

If he sprinkles or washes them with hot or cold water;

913

If he rubs or anoints them with any sort of ointment;

914

If he perfumes or fumigates them with any sort of incense;

915

If he extracts or removes a splinter or thorn from them;

916

If he extracts or removes pus or blood from them.

917

If he wipes or rubs the mendicant's body if he perfumes or fumigates it with any sort of incense.

918

If he wipes or rubs a wound in (the mendicant's) body (, down to) if he sprinkles or washes it with hot or cold water;

919

If he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it;

920

If he wipes or rubs a boil, abscess, ulcer, or fistula (, down to) if he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it;

921

If he removes, or wipes off, the sweat and uncleanliness on his body;

922

If he removes, or wipes off, the dirt of his eyes, ears, teeth, or nails;

923

If he cuts or dresses the long hair of his head or his brows or armpits;

924

If he removes, or wipes off, the hit or lice from his head.

925

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Anka or Paryanka posture, wipes or rubs (the mendicant's) feet.

926

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Anka or Paryanka posture, fastens or ties a necklace of many or less strings, a necklace hanging down over the breast, a collar, a diadem, a garland, a golden string;

927

If the other leading him to, or treating him in, a garden or a park, wipes or rubs (the mendicant's) feet (all as above); similarly with actions done reciprocally.

928

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other tries to cure him by pure charms;

929

If the other tries to cure him by impure charms;

930

If he tries to cure him, digging up and cutting, for the sake of a sick monk, living bulbs, roots, rind, or sprouts.

931

For sensation is the result of former actions; all sorts of living beings experience sensation.

932

This is the whole duty.

933

Thus I say.


Seven Lectures - Lecture 6

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