________________ 27. Sutra Meaning: I wish to stand in a meditation posture for whatever faults I may have committed during the day through my deeds, words, and thoughts. For speaking against the scriptures, following a wrong path, performing unworthy and improper deeds, performing ill meditated, ill conceived, immoral, undesirable and unbecoming acts for a layman. In regard to knowledge, belief and conduct of a layman's life, the scriptures, the equanimity (samayika), and whatever wrong doing I may have committed in respect to the three-fold restraint Vows (guptis), four passions (kashayas), and the five minor vows (anu-vratas). In regard to three spiritual merit vows (guna-vratas), four spiritual disciplinary vows (shiksha-vratas), the layman's twelvefold rule of conduct that I may have broken or opposed, may those bad deeds of mine be forgiven and become fruitless.
