Book Title: Adhyatma Tattvalok
Author(s): Motichand Jhaverchand Mehta
Publisher: Abhaychandra Bhagwandas Gandhi

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________________ પ્રકરણ. ] SPIRITUAL LIGHT. One is said to transgress the vow if he does anything to promote the acts forbidden in this vow. Ninth vow:-A man should daily practise this Sāmāyika vow for 48 minutes whereby he would be. able to get tranquillity of mind. During this time he may read scriptures or may contemplate upon Arhatas, etc., or he may repent for his mis-doings or he may recount the merits of the holy deities. This would tend to promote his spiritual development. He should be careful to avoid all the defects relating to body, speech, mind and thoughts. Partial transgressions imply wrong occupations of the mind, speech and body, and practising it in a wrong place and leaving of the practice before the limited time. If the transgression is wilful, then it is a sin. Tenth vow (Disā vakāsika ):-This vow is the sixth vow in a more limited form. It implies.the reduction to a minimum movement. It may signify to restrict our movement according to our needs for daily duties of our life. Its trangressions consist in fivefold acts promoting the doing of things prohibited. Eleventh vow (Paushadhopavāsa Vrata ):-This Vow is the same as the ninth but it is continued from twelve to seventy-two consecutive hours, once a week, once a month, or at least once a year, accompanied by some fasting or taking food between sunrise and sunset. This vow is transgressed in five ways by negligence in observing and cleaning the go 549

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