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Sixth Uddesa
The Sixth Uddesa contains 78 sutras. It has a detailed commentary spanning from Gatha 2195 to 2286. It discusses the following activities that are prohibited for a sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) due to the sentiment of kama-iccha (desire):
- Entreating or persuading any woman
- Engaging in manual work
- Conducting organ donation procedures
- Engaging in disputes, etc.
- Keeping or wearing colorful/fancy clothes
- Consuming nourishing foods
The text prescribes the Gurucaramasi prayascitta (major penance) for engaging in such activities. To protect brahmacarya (celibacy), the sadhaka is prohibited from all such activities. The psychological description of the various tendencies arising from kama-iccha (desire) is presented in this chapter.
Seventh Uddesa
The Seventh Uddesa contains 92 sutras with a commentary from Gatha 2287 to 2340. This chapter also discusses the prohibitions related to sexual activities. Driven by kama-iccha, the following activities are prohibited:
- Making and wearing various types of garlands, ornaments, leather goods, etc.
- Touching the limbs of a woman
- Performing body massage
- Sitting or lying on animate earth
- Mutual healing practices, etc.
Touching the limbs of animals is also prohibited. Those who engage in these activities must undergo the Gurucaramasi penance.
Both the Sixth and Seventh Uddesas prescribe penance for activities driven by kama-iccha. Some activities are prohibited even without the presence of desire, such as sitting on animate earth.
Eighth Uddesa
The Eighth Uddesa contains 18 sutras with a commentary from Gatha 2341 to 2495. It prohibits the following activities for a sadhaka:
- Staying alone in a dharmasala, garden, tower, road, empty house, grass hut, water house, shop, or cowshed
- Staying alone with a solitary woman, eating, studying, or engaging in bodily functions together
- Engaging in unwholesome conversations
- Delivering unlimited talks in a gathering of women or mixed company at night
- Allowing women to stay in the upasraya (residential hall) at night without objection
- Going out with them
The prohibition of contact with women is also found in other agamas like Dasavaikālika Uttarādhyayana, etc. The sadhaka is urged to minimize contact with women, as excessive contact can lead to their downfall.
This chapter also prohibits the sadhaka from accepting food at various royal festivities and in the presence of the crowned king, even in the royal chambers, stables, elephant stables, council halls, or private discussion rooms. Accepting the royal morsel (rajapinda) is prohibited in five sutras, with the penalty of Gurucaramasi penance.