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## Chapter Four:
The **proṣadha** fast should be known on the eighth day of the fortnight.
The rejection of the four things to be used (**catur-abhyavahāryāṇām**) should be done with good intentions. (16)
The **proṣadha** fast should be known again. When? On the fourteenth day of the fortnight, not only on the eighth day. What is meant by the term **proṣadha** fast? Rejection. Of what? Of the four things to be used (**catur-abhyavahāryāṇām**). The four are food, drink, edibles, and lickables. These are to be used and eaten. What? The rejection of these on the eighth and fourteenth days. It says - always, at all times. With what? With the intention of fulfilling desires (**sadeccha**), not with the intention of earning money or other worldly things. (16)
What should be done by one who is fasting on the day of the fast? It says:
One should avoid the five sins, adornment, business, perfumes and flowers, singing and dancing, bathing, applying collyrium, and nasal drops. (17)
Having avoided these, what should be done on that day? It says:
One should drink the nectar of Dharma with thirst, and make others drink it. One should be devoted to knowledge and meditation, and be a true devotee. (18)
One who is fasting should drink the nectar of Dharma. Dharma is indeed the nectar, as it is the source of nourishment for all beings. One should drink it. With what? With the ears. How? With thirst, with desire, not out of compulsion. One should make others drink it. One who has understood the nature of Dharma should make others who have not understood it drink the nectar of Dharma. One should be devoted to knowledge and meditation. One should be devoted to knowledge, and be steadfast in the twelve **anuprekshā** meditations.