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instructive, inculcating virtue and true knowledge, and being 

 reasonable, judicious, perspicuous, and edifying, is worthy of 

 being treasured in the mind. These, cultivators, are the four 

 kinds of holy and virtuous speech. 



"What are the three kinds of mental holiness and virtue? 

 A man, cultivators, is not covetous, and does not desire the 

 property of others, thinking ' 0 that it were mine!' He is not 

 malignant, but with a sincere mind desires that others may be 

 free from angry passions, that they may be free from suffering 

 and distress, and be able to maintain themselves in comfort. 

 He is orthodox, having correct religious views. He acknow- 

 ledges that there are meritorious gifts, offerings and sacrifices; 

 that there will be future good and evil results of men's 

 conduct ; that there are causes for existence in this and in 

 other worlds for having a specific father and mother j that there 

 are beings mature in form without the intervention of birth or 

 childhood ; that there are sages and holy men placid and estab- 

 lished in virtue, who by their own wisdom have ascertained 

 and declared the nature of the present world and of other states 

 of being. These are the three kinds of mental virtue and holi- 

 ness. In consequence, cultivators, of this holy and virtuous 

 life some beings, upon the dissolution of the system by death, 

 are reproduced in the happy and heavenly worlds. 



"If, cultivators, a holy and virtuous man experiences a desire 

 in his mind, ' Oh that upon the termination of my present 

 existence by death I may be born of an opulent Khattiya 

 family !' and the event takes place that after the termination of 

 the present life he is born of a rich family of the Khattiya tribe, 

 the reason is that he was for that purpose sufficiently holy and 

 virtuous. [The same is literally repeated respecting the 

 Brahminical and cultivating classes : the heavenly worlds, and 

 the Bupa and Arvipa worlds.] If, cultivators, a holy and 

 virtuous man experience a desire in his mind, <Oh that by the 

 passions becoming extinct, I may know and fully ascertain for 



