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## The Nature of Bhikshacharya - Faults in the Time of Going for Food
**Yoga Shastra, First Light, Verse 306**
**6. Dayak:** If the giver is a very young child, an old person, an impotent person, or someone whose hands and feet are trembling, who has a fever, is blind, arrogant, or insane, or whose hands and feet are cut off, who is bound by chains, who is pounding, grinding, roasting, or preparing vegetables, who is spinning cotton, sowing seeds, or eating, or who is violating the six living beings, then if the sadhu takes food etc. from such a giver, it is considered a Dayak fault. If a woman who is about to give birth, a woman carrying a child, or a woman breastfeeding a child, gives food etc., then also the Dayak fault is incurred.
**7. Unmisra:** If the substance to be given, such as sugar, is mixed with grains etc., and the sadhu takes that food, it is considered an Unmisra fault.
**8. Aparinat:** If any substance is given to the sadhu without being completely purified, then the Aparinat fault is incurred.
**9. Lipta:** If the giver gives food etc. with hands smeared with oil or ghee, or with hands that have touched food, then it is considered a Lipta fault.
**10. Chardit:** If the giver gives food while dropping drops of oil, ghee, milk, or yogurt on the ground, and the sadhu takes it, then it is considered a Chardit fault. This is because, like drops of honey falling down, there is a possibility of violating many beings.
Thus, the faults of origin, production, and consumption total forty-two.
To consume food etc. that is free from these two faults, water from a Sauvira well etc. as per the auspicious signs, and clothes, utensils, etc. like Rajoharan, Mukhavaskrika, and Cholpatta, which are suitable for the Sthavirakalpis, fourteen types of medicinal equipment suitable for the Jinakalpis, twelve types of equipment suitable for the Sadhvis, twenty-five types, and the auxiliary equipment like Santhara (seat), Pat, Patta, Bajot, Charmadanda, Dandasan, etc., which are free from the aforementioned faults, to accept them is called Eshanasamiti.
It is impossible to observe the Mahavrata in the cold, heat, and rainy seasons without medicinal equipment like Rajoharan etc., and auxiliary equipment like Patta, Pat, Patla, Bajot, Shayya, Chauki, etc., on cold, sunny, or wet ground. Therefore, the Muni should search for all these essential things for life, including food etc., which are free from the aforementioned faults, faultless, conceivable, and pure. This is called Eshana.
To investigate food etc. according to the method mentioned in the Agam, and to strive for its proper use with diligence, is also Eshanasamiti.
This Eshana is of two types, based on the distinction between investigation and consumption. The meaning of Grasaeshan is that when the sadhu-sadhvi sits in the food circle and takes a bite of food into their mouth, even then the following five faults should be avoided.
**1. Sanyojana:** To make food tasty and spicy or juicy, to mix sugar, ghee, or hot spices etc. (suitable for making food tasty) with the food items that have come in the Gochari, either in the shelter or outside, to make them tasty or spicy, is the first fault of Sanyojana.
**2. Pramanatiriktata (Aapraman):** One should eat only as much food as is necessary to maintain the body, keeping the fortitude, strength, restraint, and the yoga of mind, speech, and body stable. Eating more than the required amount leads to many diseases like vomiting etc., and sometimes even death. Therefore, eating more than the required amount is considered the second fault of Pramanatiriktata or Aapraman.
**3. Angar:** While eating, praising the delicious food items like sweets etc., or praising the giver of those items, saying "Oh! How beautiful it is! How delicious it is! How generous the giver is!" This kind of statement fuels the fire of attachment, which turns the fuel of character into embers. Therefore, the third fault is called Angar fault.
**4. Dhum:** If one eats while criticizing the tasteless or bland food, or the one who gave it, then the sadhu incurs the fourth fault of Dhum. Just as smoke blackens the picture gallery of a palace, so too does the sadhu's criticism, like smoke, pollute the palace or picture gallery of character.
**5. Karanaabhav:** The fifth fault of Karanaabhav is not mentioned in the text.