31) Because the monk protects many virtue precepts and many discipline precepts; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
32) Because the monk does not love anything, even for a tiny perfume; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
33) Because a monk makes the world a better place for everyone unlike that lay person; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
34) By having supreme various virtues; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
35) By going faster, forth in the path of Dharma as a flying swan; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
36) Because the monkhood is so strong and easily sustains the arahantship that lay appearance – lay people cannot sustain; the novice monk is higher than any lay person in the world.
By these 36 facts; a novice monk is very suitable to be worshipped by any lay person no matter what virtues he has.
10 Bondages:
There exist 10 bonds that do not let a man to get out of the house and enter the ascetic life.
1) Mother is a bond. (Due to thinking if I be an ascetic my parents cannot live)
2) Father is a bond.
3) Wife or girlfriend is a bond.
4) Child is a bond.
5) Relatives are a bond.
6) Friends are a bond.
7) Wealth is a bond.
8) Profit is a bond.
9) Power is a bond.
10) Sense organs pleasuring objects are a bond.
Due to these 10 bondages, one cannot enter the space like ascetic life.
23 tough desires:
1) Love for sinful actions is a desire that is hard to break.
2) Love for chatting is a desire that is hard to break.
3) Love for mother is a desire that is hard to break.
4) Love for father is a desire that is hard to break.
5) Love for women is a desire that is hard to break.
6) Love for love is a desire that is hard to break.
7) Love for companions is a desire that is hard to break.
8) Love for association with others is a desire that is hard to break.
9) Love for power is a desire that is hard to break.
10) Love for name & fame is a desire that is hard to break.
11) Love for forms is a desire that is hard to break.
12) Love for sounds is a desire that is hard to break.
13) Love for aromas is a desire that is hard to break.
14) Love for tastes is a desire that is hard to break.
15) Love for tangibles is a desire that is hard to break.
16) Love for thoughts is a desire that is hard to break.
17) Love for seeing is a desire that is hard to break.
18) Love for hearing is a desire that is hard to break.
19) Love for feeling is a desire that is hard to break.
20) Love for touching is a desire that is hard to break.
21) Love for distraction is a desire that is hard to break.
22) Love for the soul is a desire that is hard to break.
23) Love for existence is a desire that is hard to break.
If someone can break these desires; he is a hero. Weak people cannot break these desires. Why? Because they are weak!
Special advises:
If you have a high craving for a special food or a special drink then you should practice thinking of the truths about that food. Such as, what it is made of – the 4 elements, what happens to it when you take it to the mouth, how it looks like when it is in your mouth, how it looks like when it is in your stomach, what happens to it after that. Now you should practice as above til you come to equanimity. Then you should start looking at that food or that drink as it is, its true nature. Which means you should practice directly looking at them as excrement and urine. What you now see is the truth. Practice this perception wel .
You must not have the desire to drink various beverages after the sun passed the meridian because you cannot eat foods and drink food drinks. Do not let that desire. It is a great barrier to an ascetic. If you feel hungry; drink water. Drinking more water early in the morning wil help the body for the removing excrements ful y. The mind works according to the body. The body works according to the mind.
Always remember now you are not a lay person anymore. Always remember now you are different from them. So you must behave as an ascetic.
A Rishi does not worship any woman either lay or who became a she-ascetic. Keep that in your mind. The reason for that is; a rishi is higher than al women.
Also, an ascetic must respect the good laws of kings. Also, an ascetic must not harass human beings, other ascetics, inhuman beings, animals and al creatures. Must live in concentration.
An ascetic must never bother unnecessarily for professions of lay people. Lay people wil do what they want. It is a their personal thing.
If you take alms, you should take 3 spoons maximum. Must take half only from what the lay people offer.
Do not surrender to a sinful lay man just because he gives you food.
Do not lose the qualities of an ascetic.
Also, do not pass messages of lay people. Stay away from it. Always remember you are now not a lay person but an ascetic who has taken the spiritual path. Use your intel igence always.
I tel you, the modern society is fil ed with many fools. Stay away from them, for you cannot give an eye to such a blind bul , no matter how hard you try. Let them sink in the darkness for they enjoy the darkness.
But for the wise; open the light.
The most important qualities of a real ascetic are; high faith in the greatest Rishi and other Rishis, strong unshakeable mind, the ability of listening careful y, high tolerance, shame for doing sins, fear for doing sins, wil to destroy al sins, necessary knowledge about the path of purification and intel igence appropriate for each places and situations.
If you have necessary merits you yourself done in the past; you wil receive al items which are necessary for sanitation like soaps and toothpastes, from people; wherever you stay at. But you should have a mind to live without anything and to pass the days as they come.
You do not need to wash your big robe every day. You can do that once a month or twice a month. Washing the big robe every day is something that is impossible to do. And if you try that, it wil be very annoying.
This war is cal ed the war that is unable to win. It is not because it cannot be won, but because of extreme hardness.
Let whatever happens happen as it happens. Al ow whatever occurs to happen as it may. Don’t care about them. Get this peace by abandoning al .
If you have to live in a cemetery or in another place where is affected highly by inhuman beings, where you feel or know many inhuman beings live, if you eat meat or live in such a place; it is advisable to give a smal portion of meat or fish for the inhuman beings. Just throw away a bit and say “this is for you inhumans and other creatures”.
You may have to train in none-responding to the outside world. Cut off al connections. Do not response to the outer world.
Al powers of an ascetic, do not come at the first day he became an ascetic. It wil take some time. Because there is a process to happen.
The wisdom and power are not in the robe made of cloths.
Think about lives when you were a little pig. Imagine you eat filthy things. Imagine you drink milk from the pig mother. Imagine pig father comes and caress. Imagine a tiger comes to you and eat you. Think often about the dangers of rebirth. Reincarnation is a dangerous thing.
Think about the life when you became a god king. Imagine you enjoy with mil ions of your goddess queens. Imagine your magnificent throne which no human king can ever imagine even in a dream.
Thinking about sense-objects, causes to attach yourself to sense-objects. So live with the correct sanity always.
An ascetic only worships other male ascetics. An ascetic does not worship any other person in the universe. Because he is higher than al others. There is no any other to receive a worship of an ascetic. Always remember that. An ascetic does not worship lay men and women, gods, brahmas, and al female ascetics aka the nuns.
Also, an ascetic does not get up from the seat for the above mentioned people. (at a moment when the above-mentioned persons come forth etc)
After you decided to be a Rishi, you go and meet a local monk with one single-layer robe and an inner robe and ask him to teach you how to wear the robe covering both shoulders. And also ask how to wear the inner robe as ascetics wear. Otherwise, learn how to wear the robe by looking at monks.
Napoleon, the emperor, had only one ambition: "I shal conquer Europe!" You must also have a single purpose.
It is better if you have come to the 1st concentration level before you become an ascetic. So you know the truthfulness of the spiritual path.
What is the importance of living without depending on any lay person?
For an ascetic, it is always problematic depending on lay people. It is always better to live as an ascetic under a shade of a tree with freedom. You should make yourself self-sustaining. Stay away from lay people as much as you can. Most modern lay people wil bring various problems to you and destroy your concentration and freedom if you depend upon them.
This is my advice to al the boys in al the nations. Nowadays I know almost al of you have girlfriends. But please can you listen to me for a moment? Do not destroy your lives in the hands of such a poisonous creature. Sons, come to this path, protect celibacy or be an ascetic.
This is your opportunity. It is rare the birth as a human being. It is even rare to have a birth as a male. Even in 6 heavens and various creature types, there exist more female births. Manhood is a great thing. Listen to my advice my sons. May the supreme light of concentration and supreme light of wisdom shal come to you! This is the time to enter
into the bliss and divine pleasure. Music, porn, love, narcotics; abandon them. Abandon al useless things. Look, you and I are both spending our life spans bit by bit, day by day making us old men. Think about it. Your young days wil be over soon. So soon. Then you are weak and unable to take this path, not suitable for proper practice.
Therefore, the time has come to take action. Nothing happens without actions. Take actions now before everything become a memory only.
Because everything becomes memories in the end. . Son, everything, belongs to nothing but the impermanence. Think about it. Do not be late. For late people become like dead people.
The ascetic who stays with the Dharma, whose residence is Dharma, who is attached to the Dharma; never declines from the Dharma.
4 categories of virtue are the pil ars of an ascetic. Stand on them.
Do not come to sorrow at the destruction of the name-form. A real ascetic does not come to sorrow at any destruction of name-form.
Should not desire the profit of another one. The ascetic who desires the profit of another one does not get the concentration of mind.
A cobra is less venomous than women. Be far away from women.
Never have close contact with women. Also, every time whenever you can; avoid al women like they are a poisonous gas.
Young people are the most fit people for the ascetic life. Young boys must think about it.
When you see the soil; know that, it is your flesh. When you see the great ocean; know that, my son, it is your blood. In the great reincarnation, when you became an animal, again and again, such amount of your flesh and blood went away when other beings or
humans kil ed you for their food. Acquire the divine eye soon. So you can say “I know. I see.”
2 real stories:
Here are 2 real stories I have heard. I mention them here for the benefit of many. Samartha Ramdas was an Indian young man.
Samartha Ramdas renounced the world when the priest who was officiating at the wedding uttered the words, “Beware! The auspicious moment has come.” Then he thought about the dangers of lay life.
Then thought not to be late anymore. For late people become like dead bodies. He left the place immediately and became an ascetic.
Sadashiva Brahmendra got renunciation when his mother asked him to wait for his food on the wedding day. He thought within himself, “If on the very first day of marriage, I have to remain hungry and cannot get my food at the proper time, how much more misery I wil have to endure during the latter years of married life!” and he renounced the world then and there. This is how the renunciation of 2 great men happened.
Even an ascetic receives a very smal profit on requisites, and also if tolerates it wel with pure renunciation, that great ascetic who has a pure livelihood and is not lay is praised even by gods. It is a fact.
Never repent of your weaknesses or wrongs. Resolve not to do that mistake again. Never come to sorrow. Smal wrongs in virtue are purified by meditations.
The foremost duty of an ascetic is practicing meditations. You must do it always. Stay in the trance always.
Doubt is an enemy of an ascetic. A doubting ascetic neither acquires concentration levels nor attains the supreme enlightenment. Do not let doubt enter your mind.
Strength is life. Weakness is death. Only by brave heroic actions, you can win this game.
The stomach must never be overloaded.
If some people who are hateful to you bring a whore and forcibly put your penis in any of her 3 holes but yet if you do not tolerate by your mind; nothing happened to you and you are pure by virtue. You are stil a pure ascetic. Know that. Mind is the most important thing.
Advises of Buddha:
1) The utmost asceticism is tolerance. Al Omniscient Buddhas preach that; Nirvana is supreme over everything. That who destroys others is not an ascetic. That who troubles others is also not an ascetic.
2) Not doing any sin, doing meritorious activities, restraining the own mind; This is the advice of the Lord Buddha.
3) Not insulting others, nor doing any harm, getting disciplined in virtue, knowing the level of eating, using distance quiet calm places, doing concentration meditations and wisdom meditations, these are the advises of al the Omniscient Buddhas.
A fake ascetic:
Why should an ascetic not preach Dharma as singing songs? There are 5 dangers for the ascetic who preaches Dharma as sings a song or a poem. They are;
1) The ascetic gets attached to the vocals.
2) Others also attach to the vocals.
3) Householders scoff thinking “as we sing songs, this stupid ascetic also sings”.
4) He loses the concentration of mind.
5) Some other people also come to imitate the wrong him.
What are the dangers for an ascetic who sleeps in bewilderment?
There are 5 dangers for the ascetic who sleeps in bewilderment. They are;
1) He sleeps in grief.
2) He wakes up in grief.
3) He sees bad dreams.
4) Gods do not protect him.
5) He ejaculates semen while sleeping.
By the complete destruction of love, hatred and ignorance; comes to the supreme enlightenment.
Abandon al wrong thoughts in the mind. Then the ship cal ed mind; goes lightly and faster to the fearless island cal ed the supreme enlightenment.
If one has a meditative trance level and the intel igence of origination and deterioration; then he is certainly near the supreme enlightenment!
Ascetic names:
Below ascetic names are good for those who come to the supreme rishihood. Also by some of the below names; there were great rishis in the past too. A name is a sign to recognize special y.
Nishwara, Angirasa, Krathu, Upathissa, Yogachiththa, Pulasthi, Yajnawalhakya, Washishta, Urja, Wimala, Sthambha, Prana, Varuna, Prishava, Parivan, Uththama, Kakabhujandhara, Kakundhi, Sankha, Pravahitha, Mitha, Damitha, Paduma, Sammitha, Mahadeva, Samahitha, Jothidama, Prithu, Caithra, Agni, Vanaka, Pivara, Revatha, Mahamuni, Sundara, Hiranyaroma, Vedashri, Urdhabahu, Vedabahu, Sudama, Parjanya, Priyadarshana, Sudeva, Chakshusa, Munideva, Sumedha, Viraja, Havishman, Uththara, Sahishnu, Athinama, Parvatha, Rakkhitha, Athideva, Vasthava, Sarvamithra, Marichi, Athri, Vishvamitta, Jamadagni, Maithrimurthi, Bharadvaja, Savarni, Rishisringa, Dipthiman, Galawa, Soratha, Jayantha, Droni, Vyasa, Rama, Sravana, Jothiman, Bhavya, Vasudeva, Medhatithi, Sathya, Yogaraja, Thapomurthi,Shvethaketu, Brahmaputhra, Agnitheja, Uchcha, Mahanama, Vapushman, Grini, Aruna, Thapaswi, Thaporati, Arya, Thaporuchi, Gandara, Thapoduthi, Somayoga, Manojava, Thapodhyan, Nirmoha, Thathvadarshi, Gorakshanatha, Nishpakampa, Nishcala, Kaladevala, Achala, Niruthsuka, Drithiman, Sankichcha, Agnibahu, Agnidhara, Vamadeva, Brigu, Patavichala, Bhima, Chiththesvara, Yamahanu, Samudra, Bharatha, Akitti, Nabhaga, Apratimoja, Sathyaketu, Sharabhanga, Kalikarakkiya, Thagarasiki, Sudarshana, Sumegha, Uparitta, Kamalamuni, Sobhitha, Suthavanthu, Viraja, Niranjana, Somanassa, Anasava, Utpala, Vitharaga, Yogananda, Pulaha, Karunaloka, Naradeva, Mahiddika.
Above ascetic names have various meanings related to the spiritual path. You are free to choose any appropriate ascetic name when you became an ascetic.
9 facts of a fake ascetic:
By observing the below facts, you wil be able to recognize a lay person who shows himself as an ascetic. If he does at least one of these; he is a fake ascetic.
1) Doing a job or a business.
2) Having a wife or a girlfriend.
3) Using liquor and narcotics.
4) Not practicing meditations.
5) Playing games of lay people.
6) Not having established in 4 categories of ascetical virtue.
7) Singing poems or songs.
8) Driving a vehicle.
9) Using money.
4 extra rites:
I now teach you 4 extra rites that you can fol ow.
1) None accepting gifts from al human beings.
2) None responding to al human beings.
3) None joining al types of affairs of human beings.
4) Completely none associating with al human beings.
These 4 rites should be resolved by a yogi with a high determination as
“even if kil s self, I wil not change the rite”. One can fol ow either one rite he likes or several rites or al 4 rites.
Now details of the rites are explained.
1) None accepting gifts from al human beings rite means when people give gifts, types of equipment, robes or anything else then not accepting them. Only the finding of food may be done by an almsround. If not, also abandoning going on an alms round house by house, he should depend on tree leaves or forest fruits. Like that, not accepting gifts of people is a thing that gives the distinctive intel igence of recol ection of past lives to the yogi soon. The one who accepts other people’s gifts gets a mind that works according to other people.
Therefore the one who accepts the gifts of others deteriorates.
Accepting the gifts of others destroys the freedom of mind. If any yogi certainly establishes on this rite as “from now on, I wil not accept other people’s gifts”, then he soon arises the 6th concentration level and the distinctive intel igence of recol ection of past lives. The reason for this is, that when a yogi accepts other people’s gifts he becomes a debtor to others. Then his mind gets covered by the evil thoughts of those gift-givers. The yogi becomes a slave of others by not getting the freedom of mind. The yogi who does not accept gifts gets a pure mind, gets the bodily and mental freedom too. He attains the 6th concentration level soon. And quickly arising the distinctive intel igence of past lives, he does not think anymore to become a slave to others. Because he sees that, in an immeasurable amount of time in the past, he became a slave to others and nature.
2) None responding to al human beings rite means when people came to meet him or when try to talk to him on the road or on any other occasion, the yogi stays without responding to al the ways and tricks they use against the yogi hoping for a response from the yogi.
However, there is nothing wrong with giving a little response to an essential thing considering by wisdom by the yogi.
3) None joining al types of affairs of human beings rite means avoiding al the festivals, carrying messages of laypeople, their works and similar things of human beings.
4) Completely none associating with al human beings rite means cutting off al connections with al human beings.
If someone who has a real high faith in you, then comes and tries to offer you something, if behaves as a trouble to you; tel him to offer a flower.
Arahantship:
It is the true liberation. Came to the fearless place by voiding the desire. He is fearless. He is desireless. It should be noted that he attained the ful calmness by letting go of everything. When thousand people come to kil him with weapons in their hands and envelop him, when great earthquakes happen, when the whole galaxy gets destroyed; they are fearless. They feel no fear. The reason that causes fear is not in his mind. In this world; he stays stil . It must be said that by abandoning everything, he came to complete peace. He is sinless.
He is supreme. He has come to the extinction of existence element. He has come to the supreme enlightenment. Arahantship is the total saintship. Arahantship is the perfection. It should be noted that he achieved the total tranquility by releasing al .
“This is the sorrowless place. O dear child! Get this calm by giving up everything.”
Sayings of reverend Arahant monks:
“I live in a thatched cabin. That cabin is very comfortable. No trouble from the wind either. Rain clouds, rain as much as you can now. My mind is also in good concentration. I was freed from al defilements. I stay with a strong effort. Rain clouds, let there be plenty of rain now.”
This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Subhuthi.
2500 years ago.
“One must love (loving-kindness) al beings as he loves his only child.”
This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Sopaka.
2500 years ago.
“Dharma knowledge grows in a person who likes to listen to the Dharma. It is through that Dharma knowledge that his wisdom grows.
It is with that wisdom that one can understand the reality.”
“Pleasure comes only when one realized the reality. It wants to be in the distant serene forests.”
“It is necessary to behave in the Dharma with the intention to be freed from the bondage of rebirth.”
“So if he does not like to live in the distant forests, he then, taking good care of his sense organs, establishing good mindfulness; must live in the shadows of honorable monks.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Great Chunda. 2500 years ago.
“That monk’s sense organs are very calm. Al sins are avoided. He also speaks very wisely. There is no pride. That monk expel ed the childish evil deeds as if a leaf of a tree were blown down by the wind.” This is
the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Great Kottitha.
2500 years ago.
“Whoever dispels the suspicions of those who come to him, look at the astonishing intel igence of those Omniscient Buddhas. Like a blazing fire in the middle of the night. Gives the light of wisdom. Gives the eye of Dharma.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Kankaarewata. 2500 years ago.
“Should associate with wise and virtuous men who show what is good.
Their wisdom is very subtle. Those wise and virtuous men who practice in Dharma without delay have realized the Four Noble Truths; the most profound, the hard to see, the most subtle meaning.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Manthanipuththa Punna. 2500
years ago.
“The Lord who is the guide of men to be tamed; disciplined a person who was difficult to discipline. Now he stays incredibly happy. Without a doubt also. He won the battle against evil. That ‘Dabba’ monk who has nothing to fear and shock wil set his mind on the extinction of existence element and wil die.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Dabba. 2500 years ago.
“That monk lives in the Cold forest. Living only in isolation. Very happily spends time. He won the battle against the cankers. That wise monk who has no frightenings; is keeping good sanity in the mindfulness of body meditation.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk who lived in the Cold forest. 2500 years ago.
“He threw away the army of Mara in such a way as breaks a footbridge by a great flood. He won the battle against sins. He has no fear now.
He is restrained in the Dharma. That monk who has established his mind in the extinction of existence element wil be dead in peace.” This
is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Bhal iya. 2500
years ago. (Note: this is the definition for army of Mara. 5 things are cal ed Maras. They are; Form, name, defilements, death, and the divine prince Mara who lives in the highest god world, who loves supremacy)
“The Lord who is the Guide of men to be tamed mastered a man who was hard to be mastered. Now he is incredibly happy. He has no uncertainties. He won the battle against sins. That heroic monk who is free from al terrors wil be dead in peace because his mind is established in the extinction of existence element.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Veera. 2500 years ago.
“Coming to the community of Buddhist monks was a good thing for me.
This arrival is not a bad thing. I am not saying a misconception. If there is any great deathless Nirvana in the Dharma that points out the facts very clearly, I have attained that supreme Nirvana.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Pilindivachcha. 2500 years ago.
“That monk went to the end of the Dharma. He is calm. Constitutes in a subdued mind. He got rid of al desires for himself and others. He has no attachment to anything. Now that monk has a better understanding about the world that originates and destroys.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Punnamasa. 2500 years ago.
“There is a wonderful joy in that monk about the Dharma spoken by the Lord Buddha. He too was able to realize that extinction of existence element, the supreme pleasure that is pacified from al the formations such as merits and sins.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Little Vachcha. 2500 years ago.
“He is very powerful in wisdom. And also virtuous. Stays in an ultra mindfulness. Likes to stay in a trance often with a concentrated mind.
Eating is also knowing the meaning. That dispassionate monk is looking forward to go to the death in peace.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Great Vachcha. 2500 years ago.
“The cold stream in the forest where I live is blue like the sky. The surrounding area is very beautiful. I like very much the mountains, which are ful of fireflies at night.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Wana Wachcha. 2500 years ago.
“My teacher told me. ‘Good Sivaka, let us leave this vil age and go to the forest.’ My idea was the same. Although my body was in this vil age, my mind had gone to the forest itself. Although I slept in the vil age, my mind went to the forest. There is no attachment by anyone who sees the real situation.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Student Monk Sivaka of Reverend Arahant Monk Little Vachcha. 2500 years ago.
“The five bondages associated with sense plane worlds must be eliminated. Also, bondages associated with form plane worlds and formless plane worlds should be excluded. Faculties of Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom; these five should be developed.
The Buddhist monk who transcends the five bondages which are lust, hatred, ignorance, pride, wrong views; is cal ed the ‘one who has crossed the flood’.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Kundadhana. 2500 years ago.
“There was a great bul with beautiful horns. It goes very easily even when tied to the plough. In the same way, day and night go by very easily for me. I have that kind of comfort because I got this supreme pleasure which does not associate with defilements.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Bel attiseesa. 2500 years ago.
“The fool even suffering from sleeping; eats a lot of food to fil his stomach. What he does then is rol over and fal asleep. His life is like a life of a fattened pig by eating pig rice. He has to creep again into a mother’s womb.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Dasaka. 2500 years ago.
“In the Bhesakala Forest, there is a monk who received the gift of the Lord Buddha. He was able to meditate on a skeleton and cover the whole earth by that meditative purpose. I think he is going to get rid of the passion very soon.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Singalapithu. 2500 years ago. (Note: a god uttered this stanza in front of the Lord Buddha mentioning Singalapithu monk when he was at Bhesakala forest, before he attains the saintship.
Before his death in the extinction of existence element; he himself again uttered this due to the importance. The main meditation he was practicing is bony perception.)
“Those who carry water can carry water as they wish. The arrow carpenters can also bend the blades at wil . Timber carpenters can also bend the logs to their liking. In the same way, good men can control themselves as they please.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Kundala. 2500 years ago.
“I have no any fear of death. There is no any strange desire to live either. Establishing very goodly wisdom and sanity; this body wil be abandoned by me.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Ajitha. 2500 years ago.
“I have no any fear about rebirth circle in my mind now. Our Master is extremely talented to give extinction of existence. The monks travel to that supreme extinction of existence through the noble eight-fold path.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Nigrodha. 2500 years ago.
“These peacocks in the Karanchi forest have a beautiful blue colour neck. They cry in unison. Perhaps they are happy about this cold wind.
That is why that sound is so sweet. That sound can invigorate both the sleeping persons and the meditating persons.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Chinthaka. 2500 years ago.
“I accepted the advice of the Lord Buddha with great honour. On that day I used to eat milk rice mixed with honey. Then I sat in the shade of a bamboo bush and began to meditate. Based on the five aggregates of clinging, I checked with wisdom how does this woe arises and how that woe disappears. I real y like the resting. So I go back to the Sanu forest.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Gosala. 2500 years ago.
“I have been ordained yet one year only. See the miracles of this Dharma! I was also able to get three sciences. This what I have completed is the advice of Lord Buddha.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Suganda. 2500 years ago. (Note: Three sciences are distinctive intel igence of recol ecting past lives, divine eye, and distinctive intel igence of destroying cankers.)
“This monk is with a mind that is lighted by wisdom. With a mind that came to the apex cal ed Arahantship. Hey Mara, are you going to harass such a monk and come to grief?” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Nandiya. 2500 years ago.
“I heard the Dharma verses recited beautiful y by the Lord Buddha, who was born in the solar dynasty. I too was able to realize that subtle Four Noble Truths. It is like a skil ed archer hitting a target by an arrow.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Ubhaya. 2500 years ago.
I don’t care about Ee grass, Kusa grass, Veluk grass, Vetiver grass, soft grass, Babus grass. I throw them away. I find rest only.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Lomasakangiya. 2500
years ago.
“You don’t spend time looking for clothes for robes, do you?” Not someone who likes to decorate the body, right? The fragrance of virtue wafts from you. It doesn’t waft such a fragrance from the other people.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Jambugamikaputta. 2500 years ago.
“Blessed Haritha, lift that mind from laziness. Make your mind straight like an arrow carpenter straightens an arrow. You too can eradicate the ignorance.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Haritha. 2500 years ago.
“As soon as I got sick, I got mindfulness. ‘oh I am sick now. Now is the time to act on this Dharma without delay.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Uththiya. 2500 years ago.
“That monk lives in the middle of a great forest. He is tolerant of mosquitoes that suck blood with very good sanity. Like a tusker king who came to the battlefield.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Gabbharathiriya. 2500 years ago.
“I go from this decaying life been freed from it to the none decaying Nirvana. I wil be free from this worrying life and go to the extinguishing. I seek only which is the ultimate peace, Nirvana itself.”
This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Suppiya.
2500 years ago.
“The monk who knows the Dharma considers it is noble to stay away from women. That day I came to the vil age from the forest and went home. But I got out of bed and left without saying anything. My name
is Posiya.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Posiya. 2500 years ago.
“He develops the noble eight-fold path. That path is the straight path that leads to the deathless extinction of existence element. Pleasure comes when completing policy with the motive of coming to supreme pleasure. His fame also begins to spread. Crowd also grows.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Samagnakani. 2500
years ago.
“How good it is to hear sermons. Better to live according to the sermon which heard than that. It is always good to live without greed.
It is equal y good to inspect the meaning of the sermons. What a wonderful thing it is to agree with the sermons with high respect. That is what is cal ed the ‘asceticism’ of the person who is void from al sins.” This is the stanza uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Kumapuththa. 2500 years ago.
Part 2 – Sayings of sacred Arahant monks:
1) “There are those who like to say slanders, hate, become a miser and want to get destroyed. A wise man does not like to be friends with them. It is also a sinful action to associate with sinful people.”
2) “There are pious, virtuous, and wise people. They also know the Dharma wel . The wise man builds friendships with them. It is nice to be with good people.”
3) “We need to look at the real condition of this body, which is plagued by various ailments that have been created from bones and veins. But foolish people think various lustful thoughts and adorn this body in various ways. However, this body does not have a permanent existence.”
4) “This body is wrapped with skin. There are a lot of bones inside. But the exterior is beautiful y styled with pearls, gems, and jewel eries. This body looks good because it is covered by clothes.”
5) “The soles are painted. The mouth is scented by chewing aromatic betel nuts. It suits the delusion of ignorant people. But it is useless for the one who seeks the extinction of existence.”
6) “Various hairstyles are applied on the head. Eyes are decorated with kohl. It suits the delusion of ignorant people. But it is useless for the one who seeks the Nirvana.”
7) “Although this filthy body is kept like a new vessel decorated in many ways, it only suits the stupidity of stupid people. But it is useless for the one who seeks the extinction of existence.”
8) “The trap is there to catch the deer. But the deer did not fal into the trap. When the hunter cries, we run after eating the food.”
9) “The deer trap was broken. The deer did not fal into the trap. When the hunter repents, we run away after eating.”
10) “The Dharma of the Lord Buddha who was born in the Sun dynasty is established in his heart. That monk Ananda of the Gauthama tribe is on his way to Nirvana.”
11) “He who has no knowledge of the Dharma grows like a bul . Only his flesh grows. He does not grow in wisdom.”
12) “But if a polymath insults a non-polymath person with his Dharma knowledge, I think of such polymaths as fol ows. He is like a blind man holding a lamp in his hand.”
13) “Need to associate with someone who is a polymath. Then you wil not lose what you have heard. It becomes the root of this celibate life.
So you have to be a person who sustains Dharma.”
14) “Should know the Dharma text very wel , should learn the meanings of that text, and should be skil ed in reciting the Dharma; such a one takes that Dharma very wel . Also inspects the meaning by wisdom.”
15) “The wil ingness to act in the Dharma arises only when the Dharma is compared to life. Only then wil behave in the Dharma with effort.
That person works hard for meditation. He concentrates his mind also.”
16) “Polymaths, who sustain Dharma, who are intel igent, such disciples should be associated with by the man who likes to acquire the Dharma knowledge.”
17) “That polymath, who sustains Dharma, revered monk, who protects the Dharma treasury of the Greatest Sage Buddha; is like an eye to the whole world.”
18) “The monk who lives in the Dharma, who clings to the Dharma, who only remembers the Dharma itself, and who has Dharma thoughts; wil never degenerate from the Dharma.”
19) “He who is greedy for his body and respects his own flesh wil degenerate from Dharma when his body degenerates. If are greedy for material pleasures, how can get the pleasure of asceticism?”
20) “I stil have a lot to do as a practitioner of the path to Nirvana. I am not an Arahant yet. But the Master who had a lot of compassion for me is now about to go to the death in Nirvana.”
21) “The whole world trembled when the supremely enlightened Lord Buddha, who was ful of al supreme qualities, died in peace.
Frightening sounds spread. There happened terrorizing incidents.”
22) “I received eighty two thousand parts of Dharma from the Lord Buddha. I received two thousand parts of Dharma from the disciples. I have mastered eighty four thousand parts of Dharma.”
23) “My best friend is Saaripuththa Thero. When heard that he had passed away, it disappeared al directions! The Dharma went unable to understand. I felt like the whole world went into darkness.”
24) “After the death of the best friends, and also after the death of the Master, I real y have no other friend like bodily meditations.”
25) “Those old friends are no more. New friends do not suit me either.
So I meditate on my own like a bird who came to the nest escaping from the rain.”
26) “Many people who came from many areas are waiting to meet me.
Don’t stop them. Let al those who like to listen to Dharma see me!
Now is the time.”
27) “Many people from different areas were coming and waiting to see the Lord Buddha. Then the Master al owed it. The great Rishi who had the eye of Dharma did not prevent them.”
28) “I spent 25 years as a monk who did not complete the path of Nirvana. See the miracle of this Dharma! I who had things to do yet for completion had no sense of lust!”
29) “I spent 25 years as a monk who practices the path. See the Miracle of Dharma! During that time, I did not have any perception of hatred!”
30) “For 25 years I served the Blessed One with loving-kindness. I was like a shadow that never leaves him.”
31) “For 25 years I took care of the Blessed One with loving-kind words.
I was like a shadow that never leaves him.”
32) “For 25 years I ministered to the Blessed Ones with a compassionate mind. I was like a shadow that never left Him.”
33) “When the Lord Buddha was walking, I also walked behind him. It was while he was reciting the Dharma that I came to wisdom.”
34) “Ananda, the treasurer of the Dharma of the Great Rishi Lord Buddha, the polymath and who sustains Dharma; dispels darkness like an eye to the whole world.”
35) “Ananda, the wise, the prudent, the powerful sage; is like a source that holds the Dharma gems.”
36) “That monk of the Gauthama tribe is a bril iant orator of Dharma. A polymath. He is the supreme caretaker of the Lord Buddha. He did put aside the burden of sins and sleeps apart from al sorrows.”
37) “There are no defilements in that monk. Al the filth was removed.
Freed from that sins. Of course, he extinguished. He is crossed beyond this world of birth and death and is carrying the last body.”
38) “Ananda, the treasurer of the Dharma of the great sage Buddha, the polymath and who sustains Dharma, who is like an eye for the whole world; also came to the death in peace.”
39) “I associated with the Lord Buddha with reverence. The organization of Lord Buddha was completed. The weight of the sins was put aside. Now I have no reincarnation.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Ananda. 2500 years ago. (Note: These are various stanzas uttered by him on various occasions. Some stanzas were uttered before he attains the saintship. He died in the extinction of existence element in the sky by burning himself, his own
body, by using fire kasina meditation. Nothing was left from his body at his death.)
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1) “If he is virtuous, if he is very mindful, if he controls his thoughts and cultivates trances, if he behaves in the Dharma without delay, if he is attached to meditating, if he has a contemplative mind, if he enjoys a solitary life; that he is cal ed “the monk”.
2) “What you eat can be a wet food. Or it could be a withered thing.
Whatever it is; do not over-eat it. Keep the space in the stomach. That is how an ascetic should live. Taking foods in moderation and living with wisdom.”
3) “Should not eat four or five nuggets of food, but drink water instead.
It is an ease for a hardworking monk with a mind focused on Nirvana.”
4) “There are places in the body that need to be covered. Having a robe dedicated to cover and received according to the policy; it is a very convenient thing for a hardworking monk with a mind focused on extinction of existence.”
5) “After sitting in for the meditation, if the knees do not get wet in the rain, even such a smal room is very convenient for a hardworking monk with a mind focused on extinguishing.”
6) “If sees the sensation of pleasure as a grief, if sees the sensation of pain as a sharp pointed stick, also if is not deceived by the sensation of neither pleasure nor pain, how can such a person be bound to this world?”
7) “Let me never associate with anyone who has sinful desires, who has no perseverance, who does not know the Dharma, and who has no wil ingness and respect for Dharma! What good is for the world by joining with such people?
8) “But if anyone knows the Dharma much, if has wisdom, if is virtuous, if has a concentrated mind, if is engaged in the pacification of the mind, may that great one stand upon my head!”
9) “The one who is attached to the wrong thoughts like lustful, violent, hateful and is like a wild animal; loses that eternal Nirvana which eliminates the sufferings of reincarnation.”
10) “But if a person removes the wrong thoughts without thinking various things and cultivates concentration meditations and wisdom meditations without becoming late; he wil find that immortal Nirvana, which eliminates al sorrows in reincarnation.”
11) “If the reverend Arahants live somewhere in a vil age or a forest or a lowland or a mountain; that land is very beautiful.”
12) “Lustful people who are clinging to defilements do not like that forests. That forest sanctuary is very beautiful for the dispassionate rishis who do not seek lust. They real y like those places.”
13) “We should associate with wise nobles as were highlighting a treasure, who point out the faults they have seen and who despise the faults. When you associate with wise nobles; there is no harm but good.”
14) “Should be warned. Need to be given advises. Need to be prevented from sins. That person is very dear to the good men. But wicked people do not like him.”
15) “At that time, the Lord Buddha with Dharma eyes was preaching the Dharma to someone else. I listened intently with sanity to understand the meaning of the Dharma that the Lord Buddha was preaching. Listening to that sermon was not in vain. I was relieved from al my woes.”
16) “What I was looking for was not how to acquire the distinctive intel igence of recol ection of past lives. I was not looking for how to get the divine eye. What I was looking for was not how to acquire the distinctive intel igence of knowing other’s thoughts or supernatural powers or the ability to see the deaths and births of beings. I had no necessity in acquiring the divine ear either.”
17) “That who has shaved his head and covered himself in an astringent robe, gone to a shade of a tree and meditates is Upathissa thero, who came to the apex of wisdom.
18) “The student monk of supremely enlightened Lord Buddha is in the trance. It is cal ed the Aryan Silence. It is the meditative level that is without initial application of thought and sustained application of thought.”
19) “Wel situated rock mountain does not move. Like that; the monk who has eradicated the delusion is like a rock mountain that does not move.”
20) “The man without defilements is always looking for a clean life.
Even a smal wrong like an edge of a hair looks like a big cloud to him.”
21) “I don’t like death now. I don’t like to live either. I leave this body with a clear sanity and with good wisdom.”
22) “I like neither death nor life now. I look forward to die in extinction as if I am a worker who is expecting a salary.”
23) “On both the front and the back; there is death, not immortality.
Therefore, the Aryan eightfold path should be fol owed. Don’t be destroyed! Do not miss this great opportunity!”
24) “Life should be protected by the Dharma, like a wel -guarded city, both inside and out. Do not miss this great opportunity! Many who have lost this wonderful opportunity are born into hel worlds and suffer.”
25) “Must be very calm. Need to avoid from mistakes. Talking should be done wisely. It is not good to be proud. Need to get rid of sinful things, like the wind blowing a leaf off a tree.”
26) “The ascetic who is calm, avoids wrongdoings, inspects by wisdom and is not arrogant; removes sinful things like the wind blows away a leaf from a tree.”
27) “Al woes can be ended by a wise ascetic who is calm, free from defilements, light-hearted, and is in an unshakable mind.”
28) “It is not good to trust some lay people and ascetics. They are good for a while. Bad for another time. And bad for a while. Good for a while.”
29) “Lust, anger, drowsiness and laziness, disorientation and remorse and doubt are the things that defile the ascetic’s mind.”
30) “But if the concentration of a monk who practices the Dharma without delay is not shaken in the face of hospitality awards and insults, humiliations!”
31) “Such a monk who is always meditative, who penetrates even the most subtle views, and who sticks to the elimination of clingings; is cal ed ‘the virtuous man.’”
32) “Even the great ocean, the great earth, the great Meru divine mountain range, and the great wind; cannot be compared to the great deliverance which our Master has pointed out.”
33) “He who has a great wisdom, who has a contemplative mind, who maintain the wheel of Dharma of the Lord Buddha in the same way, does neither cling nor clash to any intention like the earth, like water, like a fire.”
34) “That monk has come to the perfection of wisdom, has a great intel ect, a good mindfulness and a quenched mind. Nevertheless, that not foolish monk always behaves like he knows nothing.”
35) “I too associated with the Master with reverence. The advice of Lord Buddha was completed. The weight of the defilements was put aside. The cords were broken from roots. There is no reincarnation for me now.”
36) “Fol ow the noble eight-fold path without delay! That’s al I have to say. Freed from al existences; I now go to die in extinction.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Saaripuththa.
2500 years ago. (Note: These stanzas were uttered by him on various occasions of his life. He died in the peace before his master.)
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1) “Answer my question. What wil future monks like? What wil be their goal? What kind of attitude would they have?”
2) “Blessed Rishi Pandara, then listen to what I have to say. I wil tel you what wil happen in the future. Remember that.”
3) “The monks of the future; often do outrages, revenges, erases other’s virtues. Poses virtuous qualities that they do not possess. Sits and argues out of jealousy.”
4) “They only run around thinking that they know the deep Dharma.
They who have fickle minds have no honour for the Dharma. They also have no respect for each other.”
5) “In the future world there become many dangers like this. The Lord Buddha preached this Dharma very purely and clearly. But they destroy this Dharma by various wrongs and superstitions.”
6) “Those monks become powerful in the future. They hold the leadership of the community of Buddhist monks. But lack virtuous qualities. They are not polymaths in the Dharma. They do not know Dharma. They only have babbling.”
7) “There are also virtuous monks living among the community of Buddhist monks. There are also monks who realized the mechanism of universe. They also have the fear of shame for doing sins. Those good monks become very weak like useless people.”
8) “What is done by the foolish sinful monks is; they accept gold, silver, paddy fields, sheeps and goats, male and female servants.”
9) “They have no wisdom. They also have no virtue. They have no concentration too. They talk with arrogance; loudly. They cling to commotions and riots like wild animals.”
10) “Future monks pretend to be nobles while wearing blue robes and living erotic lives with pride, hypocrisy, and flattery.”
11) “Future monks wear white robes also. Thoroughly comb the hair with oil. And walk on the streets with decorated eyes with kohl”
12) “They are greedy for white clothing. They detest the none disgusted astringent robe which is cal ed ‘the flag of the Arahants’
which is worn by the liberated reverend Arahants.”
13) “They want only profit. They are very lazy. Have no perseverance.
They cannot meditate in the solitude in distant forests. They spend time in vil age temples.”
14) “They live by the wrong livelihood. If they earn some income, then they train their students also for a life that earns some income. But not for restrainment.”
15) “If any monk does not receive profit, hospitality, fame, and praise; he goes without any recognition. There are noble, wise monks who do not earn incomes, but no one associates with them.”
16) “Self’s flag is the robe. Those robes are made from staining from astringents of black banyan barks. But they despise the astringent robes and bear the white, the symbol of paganism and various other religious people.”
17) “When their respect for astringent robes are lost, they also abandon the using of the robes according to requisites virtue by wisdom.”
18) “Even that Chaddhantha tusker king, who was struck by a poisonous arrow and suffered, even in the face of bitter persecution and unimaginable pain; honoured this noble astringent robe.”
19) “At that time, the Chaddhantha tusker king when he saw the flag of Arahants made of astringents; immediately started reciting these stanzas.”
20) “He who did not abandon defilements from himself or who has no self-control, who lacks the truth, if bears the robe; he is not real y worthy of wearing the supreme robe.”
21) “Whoever removed the defilements, if is virtuous, with a united mind, if with restrained sense organs, and with the truth, if bears the robes; then indeed astringent robes are fit for him.”
22) “This astringent robe is not suitable for the one who has no virtue, no wisdom, who does what comes to mind and who has a cluttered mind and no Dharma.”
23) “Indeed, if a person is virtuous, has a concentrated mind and has clean thoughts; he is certainly worthy of wearing astringent robes.”
24) “If a person is proud, if he is swol en by the arrogance, if he does not have understanding, if he does not have a virtue, then a white garment is suitable for him. Why wear the astringent robe?”
25) “Future monks sit with evil minds and spend time with disrespect.
Also, they begin to scold the reverend Arahants who have a mind ful of compassion.”
26) “Virtuous monks try to discipline those monks who are foolish, not virtuous, who have unrestrained sense organs, who do whatever thing that come to mind. But they do not listen.”
27) “That is how they grow up. They have no respect for each other.
They have no respect for their teachers too. They are like horses who are disobedient to a chariot driver.”
28) “when at the end of the time of good monks; such things and rituals wil appear in the future.”
29) “This dangerous situation wil occur in the future. Before that happen, must obey the Dharma, be soft, and live respecting each other.”
30) “We need to cultivate loving-kindness. Should live a compassionate life. It is necessary to maintain the perseverance with virtue and discipline in sense organs. Should act in Dharma making own life second to Dharma. Should live with effort.”
31) “Delay in the conduct of Dharma should be seen as a dangerous thing. Urgency should be seen as a fearless land. Need to take actions in the noble eight-fold Path to touch that extinction of existence element.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Phussa. 2500 years ago. (Note: These stanzas were uttered by him when a Rishi who was pleasant in the organization of Lord Buddha asked about the future monks. Then the reverend Arahant Monk Phussa by using the divine eye, sees immediately the future and tel s him.)
Part 3 – Sayings of holy Arahant monks:
1) “It is not good to behave in groups. If one gets used to it to be with a group of people, the mind goes astray. It is also difficult to unify the mind. It is a grief to spend time treating so many people. Need to understand this danger. Should dislike to spend time with a crowd.”
2) “The rishi does not go for walks in the houses of friendly devotees. If goes for walks like that, the mind goes astray. It is also difficult to attain concentration levels. Then wil be greedy for the delicious foods and drinks that they offer and wil try only for itself. Then the meaning of life is lost.”
3) “Wise men regarded the worships, adores, and alms of donor families as a lot of mud. The love that occurs for them is like a subtle
dart that is hard to pul off. It is difficult for a bad man to give up profits.”
4) “One day I came out of the forest and was walking on the road towards the city. I saw a leper eating food. I approached him in a good mind.”
5) “That leper took a handful of rice and offered it to my bowl. At the moment he put the rice into the bowl, one of his fingers fel into the bowl.”
6) “I accepted that alms. Sat in a nearby place. I ate that rice bal . I did not feel any disgust when I was eating that alms and also after eating it.”
7) “Indeed, if a person, can supply food from alms, can do a folk medicine, can live in a shade of a tree, and wear robes made of pieces of cloths found on roads and other places; he can live easily in al four directions.”
8) “Some people get fainted when they climb the mountain where I am.
Monk Kashyapa, a gift of the Lord Buddha, is now very old. Stil , with the help of good mindfulness, wisdom, and supernatural powers; he climbs the mountain.”
9) “Monk Kashyapa comes after an alms round. Then climbs that mountain. There is no any terror or fear. Meditates without clingings.”
10) “Monk Kashyapa comes after an alms round. Then climbs that mountain. He lives with an extinguished mind in a world that is ful of lives that are fil ed with defilements. Meditates without attachments.”
11) “Monk Kashyapa comes after an alms round. Then climbs that mountain. He has no cankers. Has completed the path to Nirvana.
Meditates without attachments.”
12) “Lunuwarana trees are spread everywhere. That area is very beautiful. The trumpets of the elephants make it even more beautiful. I real y like that mountain range.”
13) “The colour of the cold water there, is like of the blue sky. The night is fil ed with glowing fireflies. I real y like that mountain range.”
14) “By the trumpets of elephants who are like clouds and houses; that area becomes very pleasant. I real y like that mountain range.”
15) “It always rains there. That region is very beautiful. Those mountains where Arahants live are cal ed ‘Naga’. Echoes when peacocks cry. I truly like that mountain range.”
16) “That mountain range is wel suited for me who lives in Dharma making my life second to it, maintains mindfulness and meditates. That mountain range suits me very wel as a monk who wants to have good for self.”
17) “This mountain range is wel suited for me as a monk who behaves in Dharma uncaring life and lives with ease. That mountain range suits me wel , as a monk who likes to meditate, who has an unshakable mind.”
18) “The sky is very blue. Many birds fly covering that sky. I like that mountain range which is fil ed with many birds.”
19) “Lay people do not roam in this area. There are many deer herds that roam. Many birds roam. I real y like that mountain range.”
20) “The water here is very good also. There is a wide boulder. There are also monkeys and deers. I real y like that mountain range that is covered by moss.”
21) “I have a concentrated mind. I direct everything to the intel igence of origination and deterioration. Then that Dharma makes me wonderful y happy. Never can have such a happiness from a quintet.”
22) “It is not good to build temple buildings often. Need to get rid of the association of sinful people. No need to put much effort for requisites. Then he becomes greedy for delicious foods. And strive for that itself. He cannot make the pleasure from the meaning of life.”
23) “It is not good to build temple buildings often. A monk who wishes for his own good should give up such things. The body becomes tired from that kind of work. Becomes fainted. Comes to grief. The concentration of the mind is also lost.”
24) “The one who cares too much starts talking without knowing his own size. Al he has is walking around thinking that I too am great.”
25) “A fool likens himself to noble men when he is not noble. The wise men do not praise those who are swol en with pride.”
26) “I am a great man. I am not a noble person. I am inferior. We are al one. These ideas exist in the ego. If there is no shaking in the mind in such a pride!”
27) “Wise men praise such a man who has that unwavering mind, who is virtuous, wise, and has a concentrated mind, who is engaged in mental concentration.”
28) “If one does not have respect for other ascetics; he departs from the Dharma as the sky from the earth.”
29) “If they are always conscious and live with shame and fear for doing sins; their celibate life improves. Then the rebirth wil disappear.”
30) “Even if the ascetic is covered with an astringent robe, if he is arrogant or fickle, he has no beauty. He looks like a monkey with a lion’s skin on it.”
31) “If an ascetic is not arrogant, not fickle, and has the wisdom to fit the place, and has tamed the sense organs, then the astringent robe sewed from clothes found on roads and other places is a good fit for him. He is like a lion king living in a cave on a mountain.”
32) “There are many gods who came here, it is about ten thousand.
They are powerful by supernatural powers and also glorious. They are al from Brahma worlds.”
33) “They are worshipping the Saaripuththa thero who is the commander of the army of Dharma, who has great perseverance and meditative levels.”
34) “O great man, worship you! Worship you, supreme man! We real y can’t figure out what is your objective that you took to meditate.”
35) “Certainly a miracle! The subject of the Buddhas is extremely deep.
We can think very subtly like skil ed archers piercing a body hair of a horse. But we don’t even see it!”
36) “Rishi Kashyapa saw, the rishi Saaripuththa is worshiped by the divine army. At that moment, a good smile appeared on his face.”
37) “In al the various realms of the Lord Buddha, except him, I am the only one who can bear those highest austerities. I came to the apex in those austerities.”
38) “I also associated with the Lord Buddha with reverence. The advice of the great sage Lord Buddha was completed. The weight of the defilements was put aside. I have no reincarnation now.”
39) “This Kashyapa monk also has innumerable qualities. Do not attach to robes, cabins, foods. It is like an aromatic beautiful blue lily flower that grew in water, came out from it, and stay without touching the water below. He is free from al the existences.”
40) “That great rishi has a neck cal ed wisdom meditations, two hands cal ed faith, a head named wisdom. That great wise man always lives in an extinguished mind.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Great Kashyapa. 2500 years ago. (Note: These stanzas were uttered by him on various occasions of his life.)
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1) “A thought like this occurred to the arahant monk Parashari who was meditating in solitude in a forest ful of Sal flowers.”
2) “The existence of the monks changed during the time of the Buddha himself alive. Can be seen differently now.”
3) “The monks of the past were happy with what they got. They wore robes only to protect themselves from the cold air and to cover their shameful body places.”
4) “They did not crave food that was either stale or rough or little or plentiful. They ate only to survive.”
5) “They did not show interest in searching for various medicines that are necessary for life than the work of destroying al sins.”
6) “In the forests, near the roots of trees, in the thickets, in the caves of the rocks, they cultivated rest and inclined their minds to the supreme rest which is Nirvana.”
7) “They were modest and humble, they came to the Buddha's order and obeyed, were gentle, they thought of the meaning of life without being hard-hearted, without sinful actions, and without babble.”
8) “Hence their traveling, eating, and association with them; the viewer was mesmerized. Their posture was like a very smooth stream of oil.”
9) “Those Arahants, who had destroyed al sins, who had trances, who had the mercy to the whole world, are now dead and gone. Such people are fewer now.”
10) “Due to the loss of virtues and wisdom, the entire lord Buddha’s organization is destroyed in every way.”
11) “This is the time for sinful actions and evil doctrines. If someone went to rest in solitude, they are the last parts of supreme Dharma.”
12) “Those sinful thoughts are increasing and affecting many people. I think, just as monsters play with madmen; these unwise fools also play.”
13) “Overcome by defilements, as commanded by the army generals on the battlefield; they are driven here and there by each and every objective.”
14) “They quarrel with each other, abandoning the conduct of asceticism. Fol owing various wrong philosophies, they foolishly think that wrong philosophy itself is great.”
15) “Even if he was renounced from the household, leaving behind his wealth, wife, and children; They do things not suitable for an ascetic for a layman who gives a spoonful of rice.”
16) “Sleeps on the upside after eating a lot of food al over the stomach. If the supreme prophet criticized that one should not speak a certain talk; when they wake up, they do that talk itself.”
17) “Having minds without the concentration; they love al crafts that laymen do. They are far away from the sciences of ascetics.”
18) “They offer clay, soaps, water, seats, and food to the laymen wishing to get a lot of profit from the laymen in the future.”
19) “The laity are offered toothbrushes, wood-apple fruits, flowers, sweets, rice and curry, mangoes, and amla fruits by them.”
20) “They are like a doctor in treating lay people. They are like a layman in al other affairs, great or smal . They are like a prostitute in dressing their body. They are like a royal king in spreading authority.”
21) “Guileful. Deceitful. They also engage in cunning actions. They also give false testimony. Those who have unscrupulous behavior live by wrong livelihoods unfit for a monk.”
22) “Those who show tricks for dedication, earn a lot of money with tricks.”
23) “They get the people to attend. It is also due to wil ingness. Not because of dharma. They preach dharma to others. It is also due to profit. Not because of meaning.”
24) “They do not belong to the Sangha. But they fight for the Sangha community's profit. There is no shame for those sinners who save themselves from the profit of others.”
25) “They who do not engage in the dharma of ascetics but shaved their heads and are clothed in ascetical robes are very greedy for profit; they like name and fame.”
26) “At the time of that diversity, it is not possible to touch trances and other supreme natures that have not been touched yet, and to protect virtues.”
27) “In the same way a person without sandals behaves in a thorny area; a saint should behave in the vil age with good sanity.”
28) “If one remembers the Yogis who lived in the past and fol ows their method, even a weak old person wil definitely reach that supreme Nirvana.”
29) “The supreme arahant monk Parashari, who had developed faith and other faculties, was cal ed ‘the Brahmin’ because he had discarded al sins, was a rishi, was a saint, and had a degenerated reincarnation; spoke these words in the Sal tree forest and after a while died in the extinction of existence element.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Parashari. 2500 years ago.
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1) “I wonder when I wil go to a waterfal forest and spend time alone without the desire. In fact, when wil I meditate about the impermanence of al existences? When wil I achieve these my ideas?”
2) “When wil I become a rishi who is wearing a torn astringent robe?
When wil spend time in a mind that is without the ego and desire?
When wil lust, hatred, and delusion be removed from the mind and live in a great forest with ease?”
3) “This is an impermanent body. Suffers from various ailments. Like a nest suffering from decaying and death. So when wil I meditate on this body and spend time alone in the great forest without any fear?”
4) “This greed is a frightening thing. Something that hurts. It is like an enclosed creeper. So when wil I take a sharp sword made of wisdom and cut it into pieces? When wil I achieve my these objectives?”
5) “There is a throne cal ed concentration meditations and wisdom meditations. There are weapons made of wisdom with the majesty of Rishis. So when wil I sit on that throne and carry these weapons of rishis and attack this evil army severely? When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
6) “I real y like the association with good men. When wil I associate with that virtuous noble men who have immovable minds, who conquered the sense organs, who honour the Dharma, who have attained the supreme enlightenment?”
7) “I real y want to realize the extinction of existence element. So when wil I go to stay in a mountain cave, without being lazy, without being thirsty, without being bothered by the wind and sun, without being bothered by flies and mosquitoes? When wil I achieve my these goals?”
8) “These four noble truths were realized by the great saint Lord Buddha. So, when wil I realize the four noble truths which are difficult to understand, by establishing mindfulness, attaining concentration levels, and developing wisdom? When wil I achieve my these goals?”
9) “I real y like to have concentration levels. So when wil that innumerable images, sounds, smel s, tastes, tangibles, intentions al be seen with wisdom like a blazing fire? When wil I achieve my these goals?”
10) “When I hear bad words, how wil I not grieve over them? When I am praised, how can I live not becoming proud of it? When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
11) “When do I go on the path of Rishis while bearing the astringent robes in the great forest during the rainy season soaking wet in the rain? When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
12) “Peacocks cry among the mountains of the great forest. Then when do I wake up to that sound and get out of bed and meditate with the aim of realizing Nirvana? When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
13) “There are great rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, and Sarasvati. There are very dangerous precipices. There are large lakes. When can I cross over them without touching them by my foot, by using psychic powers?
When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
14) “As an elephant king separated from the herd of elephants, when wil I meditate without the desire for al these purposes that look beautiful in these five senses pleasuring objects? When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
15) “When wil I live happily, realizing the organization of the great sage Lord Buddha, like a poor man suffering from debt finds a treasure?
When wil I achieve my these ideas?”
16) “Hey, mind! After waiting for so many years, you left that lay life.
How much did you force me to become a monk? Here I am now as a monk. Hey mind! Why don’t you meditate now?”
17) “Hey mind! You asked me to go to the forest. You told me to sit on a rocky plateau and meditate while the birds chirp and the waterfal s flow through the mountains, didn’t you? You said you’re so excited about it, aren’t you?”
18) “Hey mind! At your request, I left the house. I abandoned my friends. Quitted playing. Abandoned al lust. Became an ascetic. Here I came to the forest now. But why don’t you make me happy by putting me on the path of Nirvana now?”
19) “Hey mind! This mind is not someone else’s. This is my mind. Here I am, getting ready for the battle of sins. Why are you crying now? I realized that al things are perishable. That is why I came to the renunciation finding the path to the immortal Nirvana.”
20) “Hey mind! Do you know what the guide of men to be tamed, the greatest noble man, the great doctor for the sickness of existence, who says very good things; said about the mind? The mind is a fickle thing.
Like a monkey behaving in the forest, it is very difficult to control the mind of one who has not got rid of lust.”
21) “The typical being is in ignorance. So that being clings to these beautiful, sweet, attractive; sense organs pleasuring objects. Those who are looking for existence again; wish for woe. It is this mind that prevents them from doing good and drags them to hel worlds.”
22) “Peacocks and cuckoos cry in the great forest. Tigers and other wild animals are met in the face. Have to give up hopes for life. Do not miss this great opportunity. Hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me into this life before?”
23) “Need to meditate now. It is necessary to develop the faculties such as faith. Need to develop power faculties. Factors of enlightenment and concentration meditations should be developed.
Hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me into this ascetic life saying that I should get the three sciences in this organization of Lord Buddha!”
24) “Should train in the path of eternal Nirvana, should cultivate that noble eight-fold path which eliminates al sufferings, washes away al defilements and leads to the extinction of existence element. O mind!
Saying like that, did you not lead me into this path before?”
25) “These formations are to be perceived as impermanent, miserable, void, none-soul, persecuting, torturers. Saying to prevent the defilements that behave in the mind, hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me into this monkhood before?”
26) “I was told to shave my head and be ugly. I was told to pick up a begging bowl. I was told to go to the monks as if cursed with the grief of reincarnation. Told me to live according to the word of the great Rishi Lord Buddha. Hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me into this monkhood before?”
27) “Told to calm this mind. When goes in alms rounds, told not to think about contributing families and lusts. Told to live like a moon on a ful moon poya day. Hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me into this ascetic life before?”
28) “Told to stay in the forest. Told to live by begging alms. Told to live in the graveyard. Told to wear an astringent robe made from pieces of cloths found on roads and other places. I was told to meditate without sleeping. Always told to be wil ing to protect high austerities. Hey mind!
Isn’t it you who led me into this ascetic life before?”
29) “Hey mind! It is like, someone who likes fruits plants trees and after that, he likes to chop down the trees completely. You are like such a person. Are you trying to put me into this impermanent, shaky reincarnation?”
30) “Hey mind! Did not become a monk because of a lack of good luck.
Not because not having shame for begging for food. Nor it is because of a fickle mind. Not even because punished by the government. Not without a way to live. I vow I wil not be charmed by you.”
31) “Austerity is something that was praised by the Arahants. Grief is relieved when ungratefulness is lost. Hey mind! Isn’t it you who led me to the ascetic life before? But now you are going to fal back into the old habits.”
32) “Hey mind! Everywhere I did what you told me to do. So I did not make you angry in many lives. You were born in me. You have no gratitude. That is why you have brought me to this miserable reincarnation for a long time.”
33) “Hey mind! Once upon a time, I became a Brahmin because of you.
I became an aristocrat because of you. I became a king because of you.
I became a merchant because of yourself. I became a slave because of you. I became a god because of you.”
34) “Because of you, I went into the world of Asuras. I went to hel worlds because of you. Because of you, I went into the animal kingdoms also. Because of you, I went to the ghost worlds.”
35) “Hey mind! You are betraying me again and again, aren’t you? You show me magical pictures from moment to moment, don’t you? You’re trying to play with me like a crazy person, aren’t you? Hey mind! What wrongs have I done to you to do such things to me?”
36) “My Master has shown me this world as unable to keep according to the wish, impermanent, volatile and useless. Hey mind! Admit me to the advice of Lord Buddha. Cross me over the flood of reincarnation that is too hard to cross.”
37) “Hey mind! You came to a mountain cave in the forest, which is ful of wild pigs, roaming deers, slopes, and natural y beautiful mountain tops, wet with fresh rain. So be happy now.”
38) “The peacocks are a species of birds with a dark blue necks, beautiful feathers, and beautiful wings. When the sky roars, those peacocks cry. Hey mind! You are meditating in a forest cave and now be happy about it.”
39) “During the rainy season, the grass grows to a height of about four inches. The flowers of the great forest bloom like clouds. Then I sleep on the ground between the mountains. That blue grass is like a new bed. Very soft.”
40) “I wil subdue you as a rich man keep an obedient servant. If I get any little thing on al four requisites, that’s enough for me. I’m not bored. I wil make you fit for the extinction of existence element, just like tanning a cat skin.”
41) “I wil subdue you as a rich man keeps an obedient servant. Like a mahout who controls an angry elephant, I wil try my best to control you.”
42) “Hey mind without a form! You have very long travels. Walks alone.
But I wil not obey your words again. Sense pleasuring objects are a lot of woes. Very bitter. Something very dangerous. I turn my face and walk in the direction of Nirvana.”
43) “Hey mind! In the past, you walked on the path of your choice as you wished. But today I am control ing that stubborn mind with the correct mindfulness. It is like taming an angry elephant.”
44) “Hey mind! What you have now is not your old mind. Now you can’t handle me the way you want. I am seated in the organization of the great rishi Lord Buddha. Therefore, people like me do not perish.”
45) “Mountains, oceans, rivers, the earth, and al the other things that are formed in these four directions, in the four sub-directions, above and below, are impermanent. Al three categories of worlds are woes.
Hey mind! Where are you going, to live happily?”
46) “Hey mind! I’m working hard now. What can you do for me now?
Hey mind! So now you can’t keep me under your spel . Never love to touch a bag ful of filth with mouths on both sides. Shame on this body that is pouring filth by nine gates!”
47) “Hey mind! You were wel tamed. It was as if a majestic elephant king had been subdued. I was able to walk on that beautiful path to Nirvana as if were restraining horses. Only the nobles who guarded the mind always could practice that path of Nirvana.”
48) “Ignorance, desire, pleasant and unpleasant things, beautiful forms, wil ingness for pleasure, lust; I vomited al these! I don’t want to swal ow again anything that I vomited.”
49) “Hey mind! I have bound you to the purpose of meditation, like tying a tusker king to a tower with tough iron chains. I was freed from al existences because I developed the correct mindfulness and guarded this mind.”
50) “When the objectives come from sense organs, the mind goes astray on them. Then by wisdom; put an end to that wrong paths.
Meditation helped the mind to be good. Be a person who saw the
origination and deterioration of this woe of reincarnation, who was liberated from it and received the gift of the Lord Buddha.”
51) “Hey mind! This is how I was fascinated. I saw the bad as the good.
The impermanent was seen as permanent. Grief was seen as pleasure.
The mind misled me like misleading a stupid kid in the vil age. But now you are associating with the supreme and compassionate our master who has destroyed al bonds to the existence.”
52) “Hey mind! Like a deer that roams freely in the forest that is decorated with rain clouds; I too live in this beautiful forest with a mind that is untroubling. Hey mind! I have no doubt about your defeat now.”
53) “Hey mind! If any woman or any man is seduced by you or indulged in lust and sense organs pleasuring objects; they al fal into the ignorance. They al are under the spel of Mara. Everyone who wants to be born again is disciples of the mind.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Thalaputa. 2500 years ago.
(Note: These stanzas were uttered by him on various occasions of his life. Some were uttered before his attainment of supreme saintship.) Part 4 – Sayings of sacred Arahant monks:
1) “We live in the great forest. We live by going for begging alms. We are happy with whatever the begging-bowl gets. The mind is concentrated on the inner life. We are the ones who destroy the army of Mara.”
2) “We live in the great forest. We live by going for begging alms. We are happy with whatever the begging-bowl gets. We are the ones who destroy the army of Mara. Like an elephant king destroys a house made of reeds.”
3) “We sit in the shades of trees and meditate al the time. We are happy with whatever the begging-bowl gets. The mind is concentrated on the spiritual life. We are the ones who destroy the army of evil.”
4) “Hey! Shame on the woman who has a room made of bones, the one who has a body sewed with flesh and veins, the one who has a body ful of filth and stinks! And staying like that thinking of other people’s bodies as ‘mine, mine'!” (at the time, a whore tried to charm the rishi)
5) “Hey! The one who looks like a bag ful of excrement, the one who has a body covered by skin, the one who has two meat bal s on the chest, the one who looks like a goblin, there are nine gates in your body where excrements always spil .”
6) “Dirt flows from nine gates in your body. That body very stinks. Your body is the biggest obstacle to the Nirvana. The monk who wants a clean life should get rid of that cesspool from a far away distance.”
7) “If anyone else knows what I know about this filthy body, he wil chase this woman away as if she were a stinking cesspool that overflows due to the rain.”
8) (by that woman) “Blessed sage, what you have said, o great heroic sage, what you have said are true! Even so, some people cling to a woman’s body like old bul s sinking into a muddy swamp.”
9) (by the sage Moggal ana) “If anyone wants to paint this space in yel ow or any other colour; it is a great inconvenience to him.”
10) “My mind is like the space. The mind is concentrated in the spiritual life. Foolish woman! Do not come up against me and get destroyed as a locust jumps into a great fire.”
11) “This body is made of bones. Foolish people think differently about this body that gets diseased. They decorate this body with ornaments.
But should look at the real condition of this body. There is nothing in this body that can keep according to the wish.”
12) “Although adorned with pearls and jewels, should look at the real nature of this body that is with a skeleton wrapped by a skin.
Garments make the body looks good.”
13) “The hunter had set up a trap. However, the deer did not fal into the trap. When the hunter cries, we run after eating the food.”
14) “The deer trap was broken. The deer did not fal into the trap.
When the hunter is in distress, we run away after eating the food.”
15) “Truly things that are formed are impermanent. They have an emerging and disappearing nature. Those things that get formed are being originated and deteriorated. Pacifying this nature is the pleasure.”
16) “Should look at these five groups of clingings as one looks at something of others. Should not look like your own things. Those people can understand this very subtle nature like skil ed archers pierce the body hair of a horse in the darkness by the light of a thunderbolt.”
17) “Like a man who was struck by a weapon and anxious to be healed, and as a man who has a burning head is anxious to extinguish it; a monk must strive to awake the sanity and eliminate the lust.”
18) “A monk should strive to arise mindfulness and eradicate the desire for existence. Just as a person who was struck by a weapon is anxious to be healed and as a person who is burnt on the head is anxious to extinguish it.”
19) “I was engaged in this great work by the Lord Buddha who has a developed mind and who bears the last body. So I shook the Purvaarama monastery by my thumb using psychic powers.”
20) “Realizing the extinction of existence element and getting freed from these defilements is not something that can be done with a little effort. It is not something that can be done with a little courage.”
21) “But this young monk is a magnificent man. He was able to defeat the army of Mara and carry the last body.”
22) “Lights of lightning strikes fal on the slope between the ‘Vebhara’
mountain and the ‘Pandava’ mountain. That monk meditates in a cave on that mountain. That monk has an unwavering mind and unique qualities. A son of the Lord Buddha.”
23) “He is calm. And restrained. A sage who lives in a distant forest.
Someone who has become the legacy of the great Buddha. One who is worshiped by Brahmas too.”
24) “Blessed Brahmin, worship the sage great Kashyapa, a legacy of the supreme Lord Buddha, who dwel s in the forest, who is sublime and sinless.” (at a time when a brahmin tried to hurt the sage Kashyapa) 25) “If a person is born as a Vedic Brahmin who came to the end of Vedic lore of the Brahmin caste in the human world for a hundred years,”
26) “If one worships that Brahmin who has gone to the other side of Vedic lore; that worship is not worth even one-sixteenth of the worship paid to the rishi great Kashyapa.”
27) “That monk enters into the eight emancipations in the morning and then ascends and descends in trances. Thereafter only he goes to the vil age for alms round.
28) “Blessed Brahmin, do not bother such a monk. Do not destroy yourself. Clear the mind about that Arahant sage who has an unwavering mind. Immediately join hands and worship. Do not cleave your own head!” (referring to karma)
29) “That person has taken forward the rebirth itself only. He does not see the Dharma. He is going on a circular way. He is going on a wrong journey.” (about fake ascetics)
30) “He has embraced the formations like a worm who embraced excrement. If an ascetic is greedy for profits and hospitalities; he has to travel an empty journey.”
31) “But look at that coming sage Saaripuththa. What a beautiful person. He has developed both concentration meditations and wisdom meditations to the end and has attained freedom from both sides.”
32) “Look at that coming sage Saaripuththa. There is no impure defilements in him. Al bonds have been broken. Has acquired the three sciences. The army of Mara was defeated. That is why he has become a great field of merits suitable for receiving human adores and sacrifices.”
33) “There are about ten thousand gods who have come here, they al have supernatural powers and are glorious. Also, al the brahmas in the world of the plane of Brahma ministers have come. They al are with bonded hands worshiping the rishi Moggal ana.”
34) “Great man, worship you! Supreme man, worship you! You have no sins. O lord who has no sorrows, you truly deserve to accept the gifts and worships of the world.”
35) “Gods and humans honour that monk. He was born into this world that is with aging and death. Eventual y freed from that filthy world of aging and death; he now lives like a white lotus flower in a muddy
swamp that does not touch the mud below. Stays without any attachment to anyone.”
36) “That monk can know a thousand galaxies in an instant. One who is equal to the great Brahma. He is also endowed with magnificent supernatural powers. Also, he has the distinctive intel igence of seeing the rebirths of any other being. He even sees gods when at the appropriate times also.”
37) “If a person crossed the reincarnation wheel with wisdom, virtue, and concentration; he is like rishi Saaripuththa. Saaripuththa thero is foremost of these three facts.”
38) “I can create one tril ion various bodies that act in an instant. I can manipulate supernatural powers in any method I want. These psychic powers are perfectly fascinated by me.”
39) “That monk is in the organization of the greatest Rishi who is free from the desire, who went to the end of concentration and wisdom.
That wise monk of the Moggal ana tribe, with a concentrated mind; smashed the sins like an elephant king breaking a weak creeper.”
40) “I too associated with the Master with reverence. The advice of the Lord Buddha was completed. The weight of the cankers was put aside.
The cords of existence were broken from the roots.”
41) “I left the house and became an ascetic with a noble idea. I achieved the noble idea of being freed from al the bonds.”
42) “Hey Mara, a long time ago there was a Mara cal ed ‘Dusee’. So that Mara persecuted the Kakushanda Omniscient Buddha and a main disciple of him cal ed ‘Vidura’. In the end, he was born into a hel world and suffered endlessly. This is how it happened.” (at a time when the Mara god prince came)
43) “This is how that celestial Mara named Dusee who persecuted the Kakushanda Buddha and a main disciple Vidura were born in a hel world and suffered endlessly. That hel world being always gets struck with a hundred iron darts. The excruciating pain that comes from hundred darts is different in each attack.”
44) “Now the person who knows the consequences of that karma is a disciple monk of the (Gautama) Omniscient Buddha. Hey Mara, are you going to persecute such a monk and make yourself ruin?”
45) “In the middle of the ocean there exist very beautiful divine planes that last a very long time. They are like shining gems. Unimaginably beautiful goddesses dance in those ethereal celestial mansions, shining in different colours.”
46) “Now the person who knows that fact is a disciple monk of the Lord Buddha. Hey, are you going to persecute such a monk and make yourself ruin?”
47) “It was the Omniscient Buddha who ordered me. Then, while monks were watching; I shook the Purvaarama monastery by my thumb using paranormal powers.”
48) “Now the person who knows that fact is a student monk of the Gautama Buddha. Hey celestial Mara, are you going to persecute such a monk and make yourself ruin?”
49) “The Vayijayantha astral building of the god king Shakra was shocked by the thumb and terrorized the citizens of Thavathinsa god world also. I am the rishi who did that work.”
50) “Thereafter asked from the god king Shakra at Vayijayantha Palace
'friend, do you know how to get rid of greed?’ God king told the Dharma correctly to the rishi just as he had heard. I am that ascetic.”
51) “There is a heavenly hal cal ed Sudharmaa in the 33 god kings world. One day the great Brahma king was also present in that hal . A monk asked the Great Brahma ‘dear brahma, you used to have a superstitious vision. Do you stil have that vision?’ Also, that monk told to him in his brahma world ‘look at the light of the Lord Buddha moving in the brahma world with his students'. I am that monk.”
52) “Then the great Brahma said to that monk. ‘O lord, I don’t have that vision now’.”
53) “He further said ’How can I say today, that it is eternal this brahma world! Also, I now see the light of the Lord Buddha who is traveling in the brahma world with his disciples.’”
54) “Now the person who knows that fact is a disciple monk of the Gautama Buddha. Hey celestial Mara, are you going to persecute such a monk and make yourself sad?”
55) “An ascetic touched the top of the great Meru invisible mountain with the power of emancipations and trances. Also, an ascetic touched the sleeping area of the human beings in the human world cal ed East Videha. I am the ascetic who did those things.” (warning the Mara that the Rishi is more powerful than the Mara)
56) “Now the person who knows that fact is a disciple monk of the Omniscient Buddha. Hey Mara, are you going to persecute such a monk and make yourself ruin?”
57) “Fire does not think ‘I wil burn this fool’. But the stupid one comes himself into the fire and gets burned in the fire.”
58) “Hey Mara, you too are going to clash with an Arahant monk. Are you trying to burn like a fool in a fire?”
59) “Hey celestial Mara, at that time Dusee Mara also persecuted an Omniscient Buddha and accumulated sins. Do you think sinful karma wil not give its effect to you?”
60) “Hey Mara, because of your these actions you are col ecting many sins that give its effect for a very long time. Hey Mara, so do not love to do sins in anger of the Lord Buddha and the ascetics!”
61) “It was in the Bhesakala forest that the Moggal ana monk threatened the divine prince Mara in that manner. Then Mara’s mind became so sad. Becoming very upset, instantly at that moment at that place; he vanished.” These are the stanzas uttered by The Reverend Arahant Monk Great Moggal ana. 2500 years ago. (Note: These stanzas were uttered by him on various occasions of his life. Some stanzas were uttered when a whore tried to charm her. Later that whore became a Buddhist nun. Some stanzas were uttered by him when the divine prince Mara by using Mara’s supernatural powers tried to attack him when he was in the Bhesakala forest. He entered into the stomach of the reverend Arahant Monk Great Moggal ana causing him a terrible pain. Then he saw the attack of divine prince Mara by using the divine eye. Then when he recognized the divine prince Mara, he came out from his stomach and stood before the door of the smal forest hut invisibly. Nevertheless, by seeing him using the divine eye the reverend Arahant Monk Great Moggal ana threatened him. This monk died in the peace before his master.)
Part 5 – Sayings of holy Arahant monks:
1) “Even when I left the house and became a monk in the organization of Lord Buddha; these lowly childish sinful thoughts chase after me.”
2) “I wil not run away from this battle against sins even if a thousand armies, skilful y trained to shoot by bows; envelop me and shoot me with thousand arrows. Nor I can be thrown out.”
3) “And the power of women is mightier than the arrows. But no matter what woman comes, they can not seduce me. I am wel established in the Dharma.”
4) “I came to know about this path of Nirvana from the Lord Buddha who was born in the solar dynasty. My mind is always on that path to Nirvana.”
5) “Hey Mara! When I travel to Nirvana on that path, you come that way right? But my death wil be carried out in such a way that you wil not be able to see even slightly the path I went.”
6) “If dispels the reluctance to meditate, if dispels the desire for lustful thoughts, if dispels childish thoughts, if does not create any desire at al ; then he is free from the desire. Only for the person who is empty of desire is cal ed a true ascetic.”
7) “In the sky and on the earth, if there is anything that has arisen out of the four great elements in this world, al of them cannot be kept according to the wish. They al change. The holy Arahants are aware of that fact.”
8) “The being with cankers is different. He is obsessed with pictures, sounds, smel s, tastes, and tangibles. The rishi is the one who is pure without any desire for those things and does not keep them in his mind.”
9) “The natural being is in the midst of unrighteousness. Then gets entangled in sixty eight arguments and argues. But an ascetic is one who does not get involved in anything like that and does not talk useless things.”
10) “The wise monk is concentrating for a long time. If there is no hypocrisy, if there is wisdom suitable for the place, if there is no lust, then that rishi who has achieved the absolute peace of Nirvana is waiting to die in the extinction.”
11) “O Blessed ascetic, remove the measure. Remove the pride.
Eliminate the path of the creation of pride without leaving any residue.
If you fal into the path of ego; you wil be sorrowful for a long time.”
12) “It is this quality that erases the good qualities of beings.
Arrogance destroys these creatures. So those beings go to hel worlds because of that. Fal into hel worlds and come to sorrow for a long time.”
13) “The monk who by fol owing the correct path and engaging in a good program, has attained the Nirvana; wil never repent. The wise man is the monk who abandoned the fame and fortune and comes to the truth and sees the Dharma.”
14) “Therefore, get rid of the sins. Cultivate perseverance. Destroy five dark covers of mind. Come to purity. Lose the arrogance. Have a calm mind. Arouse the science. End the grief.”
15) “O blessed Ananda! My mind is now burning with the lust. This mind is on fire on al sides. Please! Have mercy on me and teach me a strategy to extinguish the fire of lust.” (At a time, before he becomes an Arahant)
16) (Ananda thero) “Of course, you are blinded due to a wrong recognizing. That is why your mind is on fire. Abandon that wrong sign which covers impurities of the body, which makes lust in the mind immediately!”
17) (Ananda thero) “Consider al that are formed as belongings of someone else’s. See as a woe. Do not look at it as your own thing.
Extinguish that great lust immediately. May you never again be burned in the fire of lust!”
18) (Ananda thero) “Concentrate your mind wel , in concentration; practice mindfulness of body meditation. Establish mindfulness in bodily wisdom meditations. Live always with frustration about the human body.”
19) “Develop wisdom meditations that are without signs of defilements. Uproot the pride in your mind. Realize the pride and be liberated. Spend time with a calm mind.”
20) “Of course, one should speak words that do not hurt oneself and others. Those are the words that are cal ed sweet words.”
21) “Only pleasant words should be spoken. Everyone accepts those sweet words. Should remove bad words and speak pleasant words to others.”
22) “Truth is, in fact, the ambrosial. It is a true eternal Dharma.
Therefore, the noble men are in the truth when they speak words. Stay in the meaning. Stay in the Dharma.”
23) “If the Lord Buddha said a word that removes fear and leads to the ambrosial Nirvana; that word, that ends al woes is supremer than al the words in the world.”
24) “The wisdom of the Saripuththa thero is very profound. Has an amazing wisdom. Extremely good at choosing the correct path and the wrong path. It is with that great wisdom that sage Saripuththa teaches the Dharma to the monks.”
25) “He can preach the Dharma briefly. He can also preach the Dharma in detail. He has a sweet sound like a Starling bird. As he began to preach the Dharma, his genius continuous to emerge.”
26) “Everyone is listening to those sweet, attractive words. The monks like to hear those words, which are sweet and pleasing to the ears.
They listen with a happy heart.”
27) “Today is a ful moon poya day. Five hundred Arahants have come and waiting for the meeting. Al those monks are sages who destroyed al bonds to the existence, destroyed reincarnation and were freed from al sorrow.”
28) “Like a wheel turner emperor who travels around the earth with his ministers by the sky with the supernatural power of his divine wheel that has a thousand cogs,”
29) “That is how our supreme Master, travels with his students who have defeated the army of sins and acquired the three sciences.”
30) “Holy Arahants are the children of the Blessed One. There are no helpless persons in them. Worshiping the sage of sages who was born in the sun dynasty, who uproots the pricks of desire,”
31) “That group of monks more than a thousand, only associates with reverend Omniscient One. He taught us the Dharma of extinction of existence element, which is free from al sins, which is without any fear.”
32) “Monks listen to that pure Dharma spoken by the Master, the reverend Omniscient One. The sight of the Lord Buddha with his student monks is extremely beautiful.”
33) “The Blessed One who is the seventh absolute sage among al sages is cal ed ‘Naga’. He rains down the rain of Dharma on al the hearers just as a heavy rain.”
34) “I came out in the daytime to see the Master. O, great hero, your feet are worshiped by your student monk named Vangisa.”
35) “Look at the supreme Buddha. He closed the path of the sins. The defilement thorns were removed. Behaves freely. Describes the Dharma in detail. He frees beings from al bondages and sins.”
36) “He preached the path to Nirvana in order to cross this flood of defilements only. When taught the path to Nirvana, which is eternal in various ways, the monks also established in that ambrosial Nirvana without any disturbances.”
37) “He realized a subtle nature which gives the brightness of Dharma and transcends everything that exists. He firstly taught the nature which he realized to the five ascetics.”
38) “So when there is a Dharma that has been preached so beautiful y, why is it so late to realize that subtle nature? Therefore, one should always worship the Blessed One. We must act in accordance with the Dharma without any delay.”
39) “That reverend Arahant monk Kondakgnkgna, who was with great courage; always lived in the pleasure of rest.”
40) “If any disciple who receives the Master’s admonition acquired a certain meaning; al disciples who disciplined themselves without being late obtained that subtle meaning.”
41) “That Kondakgnkgna thero is majestic. He is capable of knowing others’ minds. A heritage of the Lord Buddha. He worships the beautiful feet of his supreme master!”
42) “Those disciples who have received the three sciences leave the association of al 5 Maras. When the Lord Buddha who transcended al griefs stay in the Isigili mountain; those his disciples escort him.”
43) “The superpowers of the great Moggal ana thero are amazing. He has a calm mind that is free from defilements. So he knows by his own mind about the minds of those monks.”
44) “Those great monks have various paranormal abilities like these.
Such monks are the ones who accompany the Lord Buddha who is ful of al paramount virtues.”
45) “When the ful moon shines in the cloudless sky, it is very beautiful.
It is beautiful even when al obstacles are removed and the sun shines.
O paramount Rishi! You are the same! Surpasses everything and glorifies.”
46) “That dispels al doubts in this present life, That has an unchildish wisdom, from that prophet, I would like to ask, that; the virtues of that ascetic had spread. He had an extinguished mind. That ascetic died at the Aggalawa temple.”
47) “His name was Nigrodha Kappa. The Blessed One himself gave that name to that great ascetic. That ascetic was also in the process of trying. That ascetic was looking at the profound Dharma, seeking ambrosial Nirvana and worshiping the Master.”
48) “O Shakyan sage, the al -seeing Rishi king, we al want to know about that ascetic! Our ears are focused on that fact. You are our only prophet, you are the paramount sage.”
49) “O Al -Seeing Master! You are among us, like the god king Shakra who is surrounded by gods. Great sage king, tel us about that ascetic.
Take away our doubts. Did that ascetic perform the death in the extinction of existence element?”
50) “The delusional path of the world is ignorance. Reverend Omniscient One who shows the truth to the world does not have the
skeptical impurities that are on the side of ignorance. Indeed, you are the ‘great eye’ of everyone in the world.”
51) “If the Omniscient Buddha did not destroy the defilements that arise in the minds like the big rain clouds blowing in the storm, the whole world would be covered only in darkness. If that happened, then there would be no people who glow by the supreme wisdom.”
52) “The world is il uminated by the wise rishis. Lord Buddha! I feel the same way about you. We also came to the Master who has meditative levels and a penetrating wisdom. Please, Lord, tel us about that Nigrodha Kappa thero!”
53) “That sweet voice overflows with meanings. Those words add up in a very interesting way. Preaches the Dharma in that sweet tone.
Teaches us with those beautiful words that sound so sweet, like a swan lifts its neck and sounds. We wil listen with upright minds.”
54) “The sweet Dharma is preached by the Lord Buddha, who destroyed the world of birth and death, and washed away al sins.
Reverend Omniscient Ones does not do anything that comes to mind like ordinary people. He does everything considering by wisdom.”
55) “Preaches Dharma very clearly. Has a direct wisdom. We accept the qualities of the Lord Buddha. We worship with our hands and say this; O, great wise man, give us wisdom too.”
56) “O the hero who has an unchildish wisdom. O Al -Knowing Lord, save us from delusion! We like to hear the Dharma, just as someone who suffers from drought likes heavy rain. May the rain of Dharma rain down!”