Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c42.s2.t5.9

v2.c42.s2.t5.9

(i) *Prakṛti-caryā*² has no corresponding practice in the full-fledged Mahāyānism. A Bodhisattva is a common man (*puthujjana*) while he is in *prakṛti-caryā*. This *caryā* requires a Bodhisattva to be a good, if not an ideal, householder, fulfilling the duties towards his parents, recluses and Brāhmaṇas, respecting the elders of the family, observing the ten moral rules,³ admonishing others to be charitable and virtuous, worshipping Buddha and Śrāvakas, but not developing the mental state to attain *bodhi*.⁴ Gautama Buddha was in his *prakṛticaryā* during the time of Aparājitadhvaja Buddha.⁵