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Essential daily duties in Shvetambara and Digambara traditions:
Jainism advocates six essential rites to be performed daily by its followers. These are slightly different for the householders in Digambara and Shvetambara, but remarkably the same for the monks in the two sects. The Essential Daily Duties prescribed in Shvetambara and Digambara traditions are tabulated below:
Six Essential Daily Rites for Household in
Six Essential Daily Rites in Svetambara Tradition Digambara Tradition Deva-puja Prayer and Worship of the Arhants, the Samayik (Meditation) To remain calm and undisturbed for adorables.
48 minutes. To practice equanimity and try to get rid of impure thought
activity. Gurupasti Devotion and service to ascetics, gurus Praying of Tirthankars To pray and appreciate and praise or preceptor saints.
the qualities of the twenty four
Tirthankars. Swaddhyay Study of the scriptures.
Vandana
To respect ascetics and pay salution to the elderly monks and the
preceptors. Sanyama Self restraint, control of the five senses
Pratikraman
To repent and confess past bad and the mind. In practicing sanyama, it
thoughts and deeds. is necessary to renounce certain objects of enjoyments with the idea of self
control. Tap or Austerities Penance, e.g., meditating upon nature Kayotsarg
Non-attachments to the body. of soul, every morning and evening for a
fixed period of time. Daan or Charity | Donation of food, knowledge, and
Pratyakhan or Religious vows renouncing certain medicine, and protection to other beings. Pachchhakhan activities for sometime to discipline
one's self. Six Essential Daily Rites of Digambara Monks
Six Essential Daily Rites of Digambara Monks The six essential duties are prescribed for the Diagmabara | In the Svetambara the six essential duties are prescribed the monks and Svetambara monks are same.
same for the householders and the monks.
