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[The Upasakadasanga Sutra]
**Fruit and Pulp:** The seed is *saccitta* (possessing consciousness), the pulp or juice is *acitta* (lacking consciousness). However, the *acitta* is bound or attached to the *saccitta*. This transgression is relative to the person who has observed the limits of *saccitta* objects. If they consume something attached to the *saccitta*, their limits are broken, and they fall into transgression.
**Unripe-Medicine-Consumption:** Eating unripe herbs, fruits, chickpeas, etc. The term "medicine" can also be replaced with "cooked rice." The meaning of "cooked rice" is cooked rice, so another meaning would be eating raw or undercooked rice.
**Badly-Cooked-Medicine-Consumption:** Consuming herbs, fruits, etc., that take a long time to cook, knowing they are cooked but consuming them in an uncooked state, or consuming food cooked in a way that involves excessive violence. For example, roasted corn with the husk on, or boiled peas in their pods, because these methods of cooking can involve the killing of tiny living beings.
**Trivial-Medicine-Consumption:** Consuming herbs or fruits where the edible part is small, the useless or discardable part is large, such as sugarcane, custard apple, etc. Another meaning is consuming things that involve a lot of violence in their consumption, such as poppy seeds, sesame seeds, buckwheat, etc.
The underlying idea behind these transgressions is that the devotee should be very aware in the context of food. They should always avoid tongue-lust. It is very difficult to conquer the taste of the tongue, so the devotee should be very careful in this regard.
**Karma-Adana:** The two words "karma" and "adana" combine to form "karma-adana." The meaning of "adana" is "to receive." Karma-adana refers to those tendencies that lead to the strong bondage of karma like knowledge-obscuration, etc. These actions involve a lot of violence. Therefore, they are forbidden for the Shravak. These are transgressions related to karma. The Shravak is encouraged to abandon them at every opportunity. It is said that they should not do them themselves, nor should they cause others to do them, nor should they support those who do them.
**Analysis of Karma-Adana:**
**Angar-Karma:** The meaning of "angar" is coal. The main meaning of "angar-karma" is the business of making coal. Any work that involves a lot of fire and coal also falls under this category. For example, brick kilns, lime kilns, cement factories, etc. These activities involve extreme violence.
**Van-Karma:** Those businesses that are related to the forest fall under "van-karma." For example, clearing the forest by cutting down trees, selling wood from forest trees, taking contracts to cut down forests, etc. These are also extremely violent activities due to the cutting and piercing of green vegetation and the killing of animals associated with it. Cutting down trees for livelihood, producing forest products, and cultivating trees are also "van-karma."
**Shakat-Karma:**
The meaning of "shakat" is a cart. Here, the cart refers to all vehicles used for transportation or carrying goods.
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