13. We now treat of the thirteenth kind of acquiring Karman, that having reference to religious life . A monk who controls himself for the benefit of his soul, who in walking carefully avoids to cause the death of any living creature , who uses gentle and righteous speech , who receives alms in a manner to avoid the forty-two faults , who is careful in receiving and keeping of things necessary for religious exercises , who performs the operations of nature (excrements, urine, saliva, corporal impurities and mucus) in an unfrequented place , who is careful with regard to mind, speech, and body , who guards his mind, speech, and body so as to protect his soul from passions , who guards his senses, who leads a chaste life regulated by the three Guptis, who carefully walks, stands, sits down, lies down, and speaks, who carefully takes up and lays

down his cloth, alms-bowl, blanket, broom,--(even) such a monk performs various subtile actions called iryapathika (if it did but consist in moving an eyelash). This Karman is acquired and comes in contact (with the soul) in the first moment, in the second moment it is experienced, in the third it is destroyed; thus it is acquired, comes in contact (with the soul), takes rise, and is destroyed. For all time to come (the person in question) is exempt from Karman . Thereby the bad Karman accrues to him . This is the thirteenth kind of acquiring Karman, that inseparable from a religious life. (23)

All the Arhats and Bhagavats of the past, present, and future have told, tell, and will tell, have declared, declare, and will declare the above thirteen kinds of acquiring Karman. They have practised, practise, and will practise the thirteenth kind of acquiring Karman. (24)

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