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| Chapter XIII. Of the ways in which vainglory attacks a monk.
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Chapter XIII.
Of the ways in which vainglory attacks a monk.
In the case also of
beginners and of those who have as yet made but little progress either
in powers of mind or in knowledge it usually puffs up their minds,
either because of the quality of their voice because they can sing
well, or because their bodies are emaciated,1015
or
because they are of a good figure, or because they have rich and noble
kinsfolk, or because they have despised a military life and honours.
Sometimes too it persuades a man that if he had remained in the world
he would easily have obtained honours and riches, which perhaps could
not possibly have been secured, and inflates him with a vain hope of
uncertain things; and in the case of those things which he never
possessed, puffs him up with pride and vanity, as if he were one who
had despised them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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