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LA PROPRO PROPRO PROTOPRAKKARARKIRAKA
Elaboration-In this lesson three situations about non-acceptable food and other things have been described
(1) Seeing an ascetic, a concerned devotee may offer to bring food after cooking, buying, snatching or from his own house. He may also offer to construct a dwelling place for the ascetic. In such situation the ascetic should sweetly and courteously tell him that such food is proscribed or unacceptable for him.
(2) In case some devotee proceeds to arrange for food, drinks, etc. in the said manner and the ascetic somehow comes to know that such proscribed things have been specifically prepared for him, he should sweetly and courteously tell the devotee that such food is proscribed or unacceptable for him.
(3) With some expectations or other selfish motive, some householder prepares food, drinks, etc. for an ascetic without being asked by him and the ascetic declines on being invited. This makes the devotee angry and he either himself or through his servants torments or tortures the ascetic. When faced with such torments the ascetic should tolerate the afflictions with equanimity. He should first inform them about his codes of conduct and if they understand and accept, well and good. In case they fail to understand or the ascetic fails to explain them, he should resort to silence. But in no case he should accept the proscribed things.
समनुज्ञ का आहार-व्यवहार
२०८. ते समणुण्णे असमणुण्णस्स असणं वा ४ वत्थं वा ४ नो पाएज्जा नो णिमंतेज्जानो कुज्जा वेयावडियं परं आढायमाणे ।
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२०८. वह समनुज्ञ मुनि असमनुज्ञ साधु को अशन, पान तथा वस्त्र, पात्र आदि पदार्थ न दे, न उन्हें देने के लिए निमन्त्रित करे और न ही उनका वैयावृत्य करे । किन्तु वह ऐसा आदरपूर्वक करे (अनादर या उपेक्षापूर्वक नहीं ) ।
- ऐसा मैं कहता हूँ ।
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