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Acharya Kundkunda says that the Right believer, if he is a house-holder, will try his level best to follow the code of conduct at least for a layman. His ultimate ideal will be to one day become an ascetic and practise the rules of conduct for sainthood.
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विवरीयं कुवंतो मिच्छा दिट्ठी मुणेयव्वो ||२४|| मोक्खपाहुड The person with Right belief follows the code of conduct laid down by God Jina for a layman. If one goes astray he must be known as a wrong believer. (Mithya-drasthi)
The house-holder should try to follow twelve VOWS. In Charitra Pahud Acharya Kundkunda explains the Right conduct for house-holder as follows :
The five Anuvratas consist of abandonment of grosser form of killing of mobile creature, grosser form of falsehood, and theft, and practising of chastity and limitation of possessions.
The three Gunavratas are limiting movements in all directions, giving up of wanton and unnecessary practises and limiting the objects of sensegratification.
The four Shiksha Vratas are; equanimity or meditation, fasting on sacred days of the month, offering meals to ascetics with due respect and a determination for pious death called Sallekhana. (24, 25, 26 gathas)
The beginner has been enjoined upon to give up meat-eating, drinking, taking honey; to abandon
