When a young child is ordained in the Buddhist order―the sāsana, even before providing that novice-monk (sāmanera) with the sāmanera-registration, what the venerable elder provides him with is a bank savings account.

This act is very popular in the present day. The venerable elder, the novice-monk, the benefactors, and the parents are all very happy about the savings account of the novice-monk. Now the envelopes containing money the novice-monk receives as offerings, are no longer spent in vain. There is a stable future for the novice-monk…

Weaned on ‘accumulating’ (saving) from an early age, the novice-monk forgets about ‘giving up’. The novice-monk who has forgotten about ‘giving up’, upon reaching the prime of his youth, disrobes in order to accumulate for the ‘becoming’ (bhava).

The novice-monk is not in the wrong.

He puts into action what he was taught since he was little. The bank of the niraya, the bank of the animal realm and the bank of the peta-ghost realm pay good interest.

  In the end, everyone joins in on blaming the young monks for disrobing.