| 15.The speech
which causes in excitement and is true, as also pleasant and beneficial,
and also the practice of sacred recitation, are said to form the austerity
of speech. Excitement: pain to living beings. Pleasant and beneficial ;
having respectively to do with the seen and the unseen. Speech is specified
by the attributes of causing no excitement and so on · An invariable combination
of all these attributes is here meant. That speech addressed to others which,
though causing no pain, is devoid of one, two or three of the other attributesi.e
is not true, not pleasant and not beneficialcannot form the austerity of
speech ; so, that speech which, though true, is wanting in one, two, or
three of the other attributes cannot form the austerity of speech: so, an
agreeable speech which is wanting in one, two, or three of the other attributes
cannot form the austerity of speech. So, the speech which, enough beneficial,
is wanting in one, two, or three of the other attributes cannot form the
austerity of speech.What forms the austerity then?The speech that is true,
that causes no excitement, that is agreeable and good, forms the austerity
of speech as for example, Be tranquil, my son, study (the Vedas) and practice
yoga, and this will do the good. Practice of sacred recitation: according
to ordinances. mental Austerity. |
