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INTRODUCTION
The name of the second chapter is 'Shaiyyaishana'.
In the Jain tradition the term 'shaiyya' represents a special meaning. Here it does not simply mean bed, which is its dictionary meaning. It includes all the equipment used for sitting, reclining or sleeping, such as bed, board, divan, stool, chair etc.
SHAIYYAISHANA: SECOND CHAPTER
✦ Eshana' means search or exploration. To ponder and evaluate about acceptable and unacceptable with regard to search, acquisition and use of equipment for sleep for a disciplined ascetic is. called shaiyyaishana. The chapter which contains codes about search, acquisition, and use of such equipment is the Shaiyyaishana chapter.
As food and drinks are required to maintain the human body for spiritual pursuits, so is required bed to provide rest to the body and help protect it from heat, cold and sickness (etc.) and keep it fit for spiritual pursuits.
This chapter has three lessons. The first lesson contains information about faults of origin related to the place of stay and harms caused by presence of householders and others. The second lesson contains various possibilities of faults related to the place of stay, upashraya, and the related prudence and censures. The third lesson contains procedures about pursuing equanimity at convenient and inconvenient places.
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