58. (The deva said:)
"What
is called the wrong way?
What is being used up
day and nigbt?
What pollutes the
celibate life?
What, without being
water, has cleansing properties?"
(The Bhagava said:)
"Attachment is called the wrong way ( for those aspiring
to Nibbana and to good destinations).
Life is being used up day and night.
Woman pollutes the celibate life; living beings are attached to
that pollutant.
Practice of austerity and practice of celibacy, though not
water, have cleansing properties."
End of the Uppatha Sutta,
the eighth in this vagga.
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