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Bhagavat 7:1:25 Dasaveäliyam-udbhinna, mālāpahṛta, adhyavatara, śańkita, mraksita, nikṣipta, pihita, samhṛta, dayaka, unmiśra, aparinata, lipta and chardita. (3) Rules of consuming food-while taking food, one should be free from infatuation, anger and addiction to tasty food. There should not be hissing sound and chewing sound. One should not eat in haste or too slowly. One should not drop down bits of food while eating.
(4) Measure of food-As lubricant is rubbed on an axle or ointment is rubbed on an abscess, so ascetic should consume his food in meagre quantity. He should take barely what is necessary for sustaining the life of a self-restraint (ascetic). (5) The purpose of taking food-the purpose of taking food is the pursuit of the discipline of self-restraint.
In conclusion, it can be said that a nirgrantha (ascetic) should practicse complete alloofness while eating food-just as a serpent, while entering into its underground hole, becomes straight without its sides being touched, in the same way the ascetic should straightway send the morsel down (the esophagus) without moving it to and frow for taking its taste. (It means that even while chewing, he sould not try to satisfy his palate).
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Semantics
sasträtita (satthätita)-treated with weapon like fire etc.. (The food material which is originally in the form a "sacitta" i.e., animate object should have been passed through the process of heating on fire etc., which act like a weapon (Sastra) for the living beings constituting the food).
sastraparinämita (satthaparinamia)-transformed (made lifeless) by the application of a weapon (such as fire etc.).
eşita (esiya)-made acceptable.
vesiya-There are two Sanskrit forms of the word vaiśika and vyesita. The former means that which has been obtained 'on account of the veșa i.e. the outfit of an ascetic'. The latter means obtained by different modes esna (the careful investigation regarding the acceptibility of food).
In the Vrtti, the form vyesita is considered as the primary and vaišika as the secondary form.3
sāmudānika (sämudaniya)-accepting food given by the householder like a bee collecting honey without harming the flower (without making any discrimination between the houses from which the food is obtained).
Sastra (sattha)-in the present context, the word sattha should stand for 'fire'. The Vṛtti has explained it as 'sword, etc."
vyapagata (vavagaya)-the living beings (souls) which have of their own become separate from the food-material in which they had taken birth.
cyuta (cue)-served (of life) i.e. dead.
cyavita (caiya)-it can have two Skt. forms-cyavita and tyajita. It would mean-deprived (of life).
anähüta (anähüya)-devoid of any invitation. The Vṛtti has explained it as 'that
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