Shikshasamuccaya 268

268

tad yathā kaś-cit puruṣo mahā-aṭavīṃ prasthitaḥ kṣut-tarṣa-prapīḍitaḥ sa tatra mahā-phala-vṛkṣe pratiṣṭhitaḥ | āhāra-arthaṃ sa udāra-phala-vṛkṣam apahāya gandha-saṃpannaṃ rasa-saṃpannam an-āsvādya viṣa-vṛkṣam abhiruhya viṣa-phalāni bhuñjīta bhuktvā ca kālaṃ kuryāt | tad-upamāṃs tān pudgalān vadāmi | ye dur-labhaṃ manuṣya-lābhaṃ labdhvā kalyāṇa-mitraṃ sanniśritya mahā-yānam avatartu-kāmā lābha-sat-kāra-yaśo-hetor ātmānam upadarśayanti parān paṃsayanti evaṃ-rūpāṃ mahā-gurukām āpattim āpadyante yayā gurukayā + āpattyā sarva-vijñānāṃ parama-jugupsitā bhavanti | apāya-gāminas tathā-rūpāś ca pudgalā na sevanīyāḥ sarva-kṣatriya-brāhmaṇa-viṭ-śūdrāṇāṃ | yaś ca tān sevate sa sa-atisāro bhavati sarva-vijñānāṃ | iyaṃ kula-putra bodhi-satvasya ṣaṣṭhī mūla-āpattiḥ ||

Just as some man setting out into a great forest, tormented by hunger and thirst, were to stand there near a great fruit tree: seeking food, he would leave aside the magnificent fruit tree, endowed with fragrance and endowed with taste, and without tasting it, would climb a poison tree and eat poisonous fruits, and having eaten, would die. Like that, I say, are those individuals: having attained a human life that is difficult to attain, having relied upon a virtuous friend, and desiring to enter the Mahāyāna, they show themselves off for the sake of gain, honor, and fame, disparage others, and commit such a very grave infraction by which grave infraction they become utterly abhorrent to all wise persons. Such individuals who go to the lower realms should not be associated with by any kṣatriyas, brahmins, vaiśyas, or śūdras. And whoever associates with them is guilty of transgression in the eyes of all wise persons. This, noble son, is the bodhisattva's sixth root infraction.