Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhyaprajnapti Sutra Part 01 Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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So should I continue to passively observe this singular depletion of fruits of the auspicious and beatific deeds, properly and steadfastly performed in the near and remote past, caused by enjoying them and ignore this (depletion) ? (In other words, with the assumption that I have the benefit of so much means of pleasure, should I be indifferent to the needs of the future? This is not good for me.) Therefore, as long as my silver, gold, ... and so on up to... rubies continue to accumulate in larger and larger quantities every day; as long as my friends, kinfolk, family members, maternal relatives, wife's relatives, and servants respect me, accept me as master, honour me, and serve me humbly accepting me to be beatific, auspicious, divine and sagacious; I should work for my own (future) well-being. Only that would be to my advantage. Therefore, tomorrow when the night ends and it is dawn (at first light)... and so on up to... when the sun is at its full glow I should make wooden bowls with my own hands. I should get large quantities of ashan, paan, khadya, svadya (staple food, liquids, general food and savoury food) cooked. Having done that, I should invite my friends, family members, relatives and servants; greet them; offer them this food; and honour them with clothes, perfumes, garlands and ornaments. After that, in their presence I should hand over the responsibility of the family to my eldest son. Then after seeking permission from them and my eldest son, carrying the wooden bowls along and tonsuring my head I should accept the Pranama initiation (pravrajya).
After getting initiated I will take this resolve-“I will observe a life 45 long vow of continuous two day fasts (a two day fast followed by a day of i eating and again followed by a two day fast and so on). While doing this I will endure the heat of the sun by standing in Atapana Bhumi (the allotted raised spot for austerities involving mortification by heat; the heat-mortification arena) with arms raised and facing the sun. On the day of breaking the fast I will get down from the Atapana Bhumi, carry the wooden bowl and collect pure cooked rice (odan) as alms by visiting houses of low, middle and high class families in Tamralipti city. Then I will wash the rice 21 times before eating.” Thus merchant Tamali took this noble resolve.
Deciding thus, when the night ended and it was dawn (at first light)... and so on up to... when the sun was at its full glow he made a wooden bowl with his own hands. He then got large quantities of ashan, paan,
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