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## The Nature of the Eight Precepts Mother
**A Sadhu should take food for six reasons:**
1. **Kshudha:** When unable to bear hunger.
2. **Acharya-Adi:** To serve and show devotion to elders.
3. **E-Samiti:** To properly follow the eight precepts, including the E-Samiti.
4. **Preksha-Utpreshka:** To maintain restraint.
5. **Prabadh:** To protect life from the arising of digestive fire.
6. **Aart-Roudra-Dhyan:** To abandon agitated and angry meditation and attain stability in Dharma meditation.
**If a Sadhu takes food for any other reason, they incur the fifth fault called "Karana-Abhav."**
It is said: "The purification, investigation, and detailed analysis of food free from the eight food faults - Udgham, Utpadan, Eshna, Samyogan, Apruman, Angar, Dhum, and Karana-Abhav - is explained by the Eshna-Samiti for the sake of Munis."
**Now, the fourth Adan-Nikshep-Samiti is described:**
"Taking or placing things after carefully observing the Asana and other things, and cleaning them with Rajo-haran, is called Adan-Nikshep-Samiti."
**Explanation:**
Asana refers to the ground or mat used for sitting. The word "Adi" includes things like clothes, vessels, belts, staffs, and other equipment. The meaning is that a Sadhu should carefully observe all their Dharma-Upakaran with their eyes during the day. At night, if they cannot see living beings, they should carefully clean them with Rajo-haran or a Guchhak, and then lift or place them. If this is not done, proper "Pratilekhana" does not occur.
The scriptures say: "When performing Pratilekhana, if one talks to others, engages in worldly conversations, rejects others, or reads or listens to others, then that Sadhak is a violator of the Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Plants, and Tris-Kaya beings, and is negligent in Pratilekhana."
Therefore, whatever equipment is lifted or placed, one should first look at it, then clean it with Rajo-haran, and then take or place it. This type of action is called Adan-Nikshep-Samiti. Just as Bhima is referred to as "Bhim" in short, here the long name of this Samiti is referred to as "Adan" in short.
**Now, the fifth Utsarg-Samiti is described:**
"A Sadhu who carefully discards phlegm, urine, feces, and other things that need to be discarded on a ground free from living beings, is called Utsarg-Samiti."
**Explanation:**
Phlegm and mucus coming out of the mouth, nose, etc., urine, feces, etc., are generally considered impure and discarded substances of the body. The word "Prayah" should be understood to include broken or leftover clothes, vessels, food, water, etc., that need to be discarded. Carefully discarding all these things on a non-sentient ground free from Tris-Sthavar-Jantu, in dust or sand, is called Utsarg-Samiti.
**Now, regarding the first of the three "Guptis" - Manogupti:**
"The protection of the mind from the web of imagination, its stability in equanimity, and its immersion in the contemplation of the Self, is called Manogupti by wise men."
**Explanation:**
Here, Manogupti (protection of the mind from its negative tendencies) is described as three types:
1. **Separation of the mind from the web of imagination arising from Aart-Dhyan and Roudra-Dhyan.**
2. **Establishment of the mind in Madhyastha-Parinati or equanimity, which is in accordance with the scriptures, conducive to the afterlife, and involves Dharma-Dhyan.**
3. **Immersion of the mind in Atma-Ramanta, i.e., the state of being the Self, by stopping skillful and unskillful mental activities and creating a state of Yoga-Nirodha.**
From this perspective, Manogupti...