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can not come into existance but after the interval stated above, during the different seasons of the year. ( It is interesting to note here that, European Science maintains that, the microbes can not exist beyond the temperature 78° Fah. Why should they exist then in the human body of normal temperature of 98 degrees and point something Fah., the boiling point being 120 degrees Fah? The teaching of our Shastras in this connection seems to me more clear ).
The rules of conduct that the Sadhus have to observe are more rigid than those for the Sravakas and hence the Sadhus have to observe, Ahimsa Vrata while the Shravakas Pranatipat Viramana Vrata. The latter provides for the Shravakas such things as the boiling of water, preparation of food etc, in which the destruction of lives is inevitable. The Sadhus in observing Ahimsa Vrata, can not undertake such business in hand. They get their food by Bhiksa. The Shravakas feel it their duty and pleasure to supply food and drink out of their own food and drink to Sadhus, who always seek for their good. (As a matter of fact, the true Sadhu serves humanity just in the same way as the European Scientists and Savants of the present day, with this difference only that, the former both spiritually aud physically, while the latter only physically.)
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