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mingling in a crowd of people, currying favou with others, cherishing malicious purposes, and travelling, [in which, from liability to tread on small insects, the danger of sinning is incurred].
VI. Self-denial, religious restraint, and other helps to a course of virtuous action. These are, the five cares about externals, the five cares about internals ; twenty kinds of patient endurance, and ten kinds of virtuous actions. Of the first named, attention to the road on which you walk, (that there be no insects on it to sustain injury], attention to what you say, and what you eat, care about what you receive, [that you do not put it down on the ground, and allow ants to mingle with it, &c.], and care about excretions. Of the second named, or care about internals, there is one care to exclude improper and to introduce religious subjects of meditation, care to cover your mouth when you speak, [lest some fly or animal enter it], and to avoid all kinds of sin. The following things are to be patiently borne : hunger, thirst, cold, heat, the bite of any animal, while you are engaged in religious worship, dirty and ragged clothes, the solicitations of passion, the absence of female society, the inconveniences of travel, the appearance of ghosts, an uncomfortable couch, railing, murderous blows, begging, disappointment in obtaining what we desire, disease, a straw pallet, dirt, honour, the praise of knowledge, the disgrace
