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___ इसलिए संयमी निर्ग्रन्थ इस प्रकार नामकरण, विवाह आदि के उपलक्ष्य में होने वाली पूर्व-संखडि (प्रीतिभोज) अथवा मृतक के पीछे की जाने वाली पश्चात्-संखडि-(मृतक-भोज) को (अनेक दोषयुक्त) संखडि जानकर संखडि (-में निष्पन्न आहार-लाभ) की दृष्टि से जाने का मन में संकल्प न करे। यह उस भिक्षु की समग्रता-भिक्षुभाव की पूर्णता है। CENSURE OF GOING TO A FEAST
13. If a bhikshu or bhikshuni knows that there is a great feast within a distance of half a yojan (eight miles), he should not think of going to seek food prepared for such feast.
If bhikshu or bhikshuni finds that there is a feast in the east, he/she should become apathetic towards it and proceed to the west. If there is a feast in the west, he/she should become apathetic towards it and proceed to the east. In the same way, if there is a feast in the south, he/she should become apathetic towards it and proceed to the north and if there is a feast in the north, he/she should become apathetic towards it and proceed to the south.
No matter at what place, such as a good city, a bad city, borough, port, harbour, mine, hermitage, suburb or even the capital, the feast is he/she should not set out with a desire to collect the rich food from the feast. The Omniscient has said this is the cause of bondage of karmas.
When a bhikshu or bhikshuni, going to a feast for festive food, eats that food, he is in fact eating a food with faults like adhakarmik (cooked specifically for ascetics), auddeshik (specifically prepared for ascetics), mishrajaat (cooked jointly for family and ascetics), kreetkrit (specifically purchased for ascetics), pramitya (food that is taken on loan for the specific purpose of giving to ascetics), snatched, taken without the permission of the owner or brought to the place of stay.
14. When an ascetic is expected in a feast, the devoted householder will enlarge a gate if it is small and reduce it if it is पिण्डैषणा : प्रथम अध्ययन
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