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**Essential Sutras**
1. **Avoiding secluded dwelling:** Do not stay in a place inhabited by women, animals, or eunuchs.
2. **Avoiding conversations about women:** Do not engage in discussions about women, their stories, beauty, etc.
3. **Avoiding sitting together:** Do not sit on the same seat with a woman, and even after she leaves, do not sit in that place for a muhurta (48 minutes).
4. **Avoiding gazing at women's bodies:** Do not look at the attractive limbs and features of women. If by chance your gaze falls upon them, immediately avert it as you would from the sun.
5. **Avoiding hearing sounds from behind walls:** Do not listen to or see a woman's words, songs, laughter, appearance, etc., from behind a wall or any other cover.
6. **Avoiding recalling past pleasures:** Do not remember past sensual experiences.
7. **Avoiding prescribed food:** Do not consume heavy food that stimulates desires.
8. **Avoiding excessive food:** Do not eat even dry and bland food in excess. According to texts on diet, fill half your stomach with food, leave two parts for water, and one part for air. According to scriptures, the ideal diet for a male practitioner is 32 kavala, and for a female practitioner, 28 kavala. The measure of a kavala is the size of a peacock's egg.
9. **Avoiding adornment:** Do not adorn your body.
In these nine secrets of celibacy, and in the ten virtues of patience, liberation, non-attachment, honesty, humility, lightness (freedom from attachment to material possessions), truth, self-control, austerity, celibacy, and renunciation, I renounce any transgression.
**Eleven Images of the Devotee**
The special type of attachment of a desavirata (one who has renounced worldly attachments) is called pratima (image). A shraman who worships gods and gurus is called a shramanopasaka (devotee of shramans). When a devotee worships images, he is called a pratimadhari shravaka (devotee who holds images). These images are eleven:
1. **Darshan Pratima:** In this image, the shravaka, without holding any kind of royal office or other position, follows pure, untainted, and proper right faith. The main aspect is the renunciation of falsehood and transgression. This image lasts for one month.
2. **Vrata Pratima:** After attaining right faith, the devotee practices vows. He fulfills the vows of the five anuvrata (minor vows) and other vows properly. However, he does not observe samayika (a daily meditation) properly at the right time...