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MAHAPRATYAKHYĀNA PRAKĪRṆAKA : 23
Whatever I have sought under the influence of attachment and aversion, I confess my fault and strongly condemn such seeking.
You can liberate from the tradition of worldly existence only by destroying delusion, by completely shedding the eight types of accumulated karma and by piercing the cycle of births and deaths.
Therefore, the aspiran must observe the five great vows in three ways mentally, verbally and physically and by three means - self, other and approval.
PROPOUNDING THE PROTECTION OF FIVE GREAT VOWS
I (can) protect the five great vows by forsaking anger, pride, guile and greed and similarly by becoming vigilant by giving up attachment and aversion.
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I, the restrained aspirant, (can) protect my five great vows by self-restraint achieved through giving quarrelsomeness, laying blames, spitefulness, condemning others.
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I, the restrained aspirant, (can) protect my five great vows by controlling five types of desires, by restraining five sensory organs and by fearing honour and dishonour.
I, the restrained aspirant, protect my five great vows by giving up three inauspicious spiritual dispositions (leśyās)— black, blue and grey and by forsaking two inauspicious meditations - despondent and angered.
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