Dighanikaya 33.304_15

33.304_15

Ajjavanti gomuttavaṅkatā candavaṅkatā naṅgalakoṭivaṅkatāti tayo anajjavā. Ekacco hi bhikkhu paṭhamavaye ekavīsatiyā anesanāsu chasu ca agocaresu carati, majjhimapacchimavayesu lajjī kukkuccako sikkhākāmo hoti, ayaṃ gomuttavaṅkatā nāma. Eko paṭhamavayepi pacchimavayepi catupārisuddhisīlaṃ pūreti, lajjī kukkuccako sikkhākāmo hoti, majjhimavaye purimasadiso, ayaṃ candavaṅkatā nāma. Eko paṭhamavayepi majjhimavayepi catupārisuddhisīlaṃ pūreti, lajjī kukkuccako sikkhākāmo hoti, pacchimavaye purimasadiso ayaṃ naṅgalakoṭivaṅkatā nāma. Eko sabbametaṃ vaṅkataṃ pahāya tīsupi vayesu pesalo lajjī kukkuccako sikkhākāmo hoti. Tassa yo so ujubhāvo, idaṃ ajjavaṃ nāma. Abhidhammepi vuttaṃ – ‘‘tattha katamo ajjavo. Yā ajjavatā ajimhatā avaṅkatā akuṭilatā, ayaṃ vuccati ajjavo’’ti (dha. sa. 1346). Lajjavanti ‘‘tattha katamo lajjavo? Yo hirīyati hirīyitabbena hirīyati pāpakānaṃ akusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ samāpattiyā. Ayaṃ vuccati lajjavo’’ti evaṃ vutto lajjībhāvo.

"Uprightness" (ajjava): there are three crookednesses, namely, crookedness like cow's urine, crookedness like the crescent moon, and crookedness like the tip of a ploughshare. For a certain monk, in the first stage of life, wanders about in the twenty-one improper quests and the six improper resorts, but in the middle and last stages of life he is conscientious, scrupulous, and desirous of training; this is called 'crookedness like cow's urine.' Another fulfills the morality of fourfold purification in the first stage of life and in the last stage of life, and is conscientious, scrupulous, and desirous of training, but in the middle stage of life he is like the former one; this is called 'crookedness like the crescent moon.' Another fulfills the morality of fourfold purification in the first stage of life and in the middle stage of life, and is conscientious, scrupulous, and desirous of training, but in the last stage of life he is like the former one; this is called 'crookedness like the tip of a ploughshare.' Another, having abandoned all such crookedness, in all three stages of life is amiable, conscientious, scrupulous, and desirous of training. Whatever straightness of his there is, this is called uprightness. In the Abhidhamma too it is said: 'Therein, what is uprightness? That which is uprightness, non-bentness, non-crookedness, non-deflectedness—this is called uprightness.' "Conscientiousness" (lajjava): this refers to the quality of being conscientious, spoken of as: 'Therein, what is conscientiousness? That one feels shame regarding what should be shamed of; one feels shame at the attainment of evil, unwholesome states—this is called conscientiousness.'