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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emios" data-source="post: 27095526" data-attributes="member: 254970">Devatta rules According to the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon" target="_blank">Pāli Canon</a>, he taught his sangha to adopt five <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapas_(Sanskrit)" target="_blank">tapas</a> (literally, austerities) throughout their lives:<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devadatta#cite_note-12" target="_blank">[12]</a><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">that monks should dwell all their lives in the forest,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">that they should accept no invitations to meals, but live entirely on alms obtained by begging,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">that they should wear only robes made of discarded rags and accept no robes from the laity,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">that they should dwell at the foot of a tree and not under a roof,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">that they should abstain completely from fish and flesh.</li> </ol>The Buddha's reply was that those who felt so inclined could follow these rules – except that of sleeping under a tree during the rainy season – but he refused to make the rules obligatory. They are among the 13 ascetic practices (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhutanga" target="_blank">dhutanga</a>).<hr />So what is normal life now days?Even the upper middle class now a days have better living standard that those kings those days.What is a prado now a days.It’s magic for the utter poor------ Post added on [DATETIME="UT"]1637052257[/DATETIME]</blockquote>

Verification: Hath warak paha keeyada? (hatha wadikireema paha)

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