Dighanikaya 25.58_3

25.58_3

Majjatīti mānamadakaraṇena majjati. Mucchatīti mucchito hoti gadhito ajjhāpanno. Pamādamāpajjatīti etadeva sāranti pamādamāpajjati. Sāsane pabbajitopi dhutaṅgasuddhiko hoti, na kammaṭṭhānasuddhiko. Dhutaṅgameva arahattaṃ viya sārato pacceti.

“He becomes intoxicated” means he becomes intoxicated by producing the intoxication of conceit. “He becomes infatuated” means he is infatuated, greedy, overcome. “He falls into negligence” means he falls into negligence, thinking, “This alone is the essential core.” Even one who has gone forth in the Dispensation may be one whose purification is merely through ascetic practices, not through meditation subjects. He regards the ascetic practice itself as the essential core, as if it were arahantship.