Sannyasa Dharma

SR No.: 006707
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Total Pages: 174
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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SANNYASA DHARMA
taking his food. The saint, of course, wears no shoes, and does not travel in any kind of conveyances.
The saiut's rules for sleeping are simple; he longs in the end to destroy the liability to sleep altogether, but till this is attained he lies down to sleep for a few hours after midnight. At any other time of the day or night he will not indulge in sleep. He sleeps on either side, stretched out or slightly bent, but he does not turn over during the night from one side to the other. His bed consists of bare earth, a slab of stone, a mat of straw, or a block of wood. If he spend his night in a bastika (a deserted or uninhabited place outside the inhabited area) he will look out for forty-six kinds of faults which are similar in nature to the forty-six faults that are to be avoided with reference to food, and also the one termed adhāh karma. Of these it is only necessary to enumerate the first sixteen and the first ten out of the last fourteen, the rest differing in no way from the corresponding faults with reference to food, and involving no difficulty in their application to a bastikā. They have been enumerated in connection with the taking of food.
1. The uddesa dosa occurs when a bastikā is purposely built for the use of saints and pseudo saints.
2. The adhyadhi dosa signifies the erection of an extra room, or place, for the use of saints when one is building a house for one self.
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