ABSTRACT
Then I said within myself : " All those ascetics and brahmans who resort to remote places in the depths of the forest, while they are not pure in body, action, word, thought, or way of life ; filled with covetousness, lust, keen passions, hatred and corrupt thought and desires ; possessed by sloth and torpor ; unbalanced and unpacified in mind ; full of doubts and uncertainty ; or who resort to the forest in self-conceit and in disparagement of others; terrified, cowardly, with desire for honour and fame; indolent and apathetic, inert, feeble and forgetful; lacking intelligence, uncontrolled, wavering in mind; without reason, stupid, they, because of these impurities, invoke fear and terror. But I resort to the remote places in the lonely depths of the forest, following purity of body, action, word, thought and way of life; freed from covetousness, filled full with loving kindness, with sloth and torpor banished; serene of mind, conquered every doubt, not exalting myself nor disparaging others, gone excitement and fear, satisfied with little, resolved and strenuous, collected in mind, who have won concentration and the blessing of the higher knowledge. Whatsoever Noble Ones there be who resort to remote places in the lonely depths of the forest, thus purified and thus attained, of such am I."
