Unknown Pilgrims

SR No.: 007014
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N Shanta
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications Delhi
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 820
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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The Unknown Pilgrims
1. Darśana-pratimā, knowledge of the doctrine and faith, therein
renunciation of the passions, devotion to the parameşthins.
2. Vrata-pratimă, observance of the five anuvratas, the three
gunavratas (which are subsidiary to these anuvratas) and the four śikṣā-vratas, i.e., various rules of the ascetic life, including certain fasts.
3. Sāmāyika-pratimă, observance of the rite of sāmāyika.
4. Poşadha-pratimă, the observance of fasts on aştami, the eighth day of the lunar fortnight and on calurdasi, the fourteenth day of the lunar month.
5. Sacittatyāga-pratimā, the taking of only very pure foodstuffs.
6. Rātribhuktavirata-pratimă, abstinence from food in the evening.
7. Brahmacarya-pratimā, complete continence.
8. Arambhatyāga-pratimā, renunciation of all professional and social activity, commerce, agriculture, etc.
9. Parigrahatyāga-pratimā, renuciation of all forms of possession:
goods, properties.
10. Anumatityāga-pratimā, renunciation of participation in family,
professional and social activitics, in anything of a worldly sort.
11. Uddistatyāga-pratimā, renunciation of the family abode in favour of an ascetic life in dependence upon a group of ascetics living from alms, cither one formed around the acārya or a group of ăryikās. 19
realisation of the 5th gunasthāna, so long, of course, as she is faithful to the demands of her promises. These promises constitute the 28 mūlaguņas; cf. diksā, P 653 ff.
19 Cf. Jñanamati, 1976, pp. 65-66; one observes that certain pratimas are repetitious of the aņuvratas.