Agam 10 Ang 10 Prashna Vyakaran Sutra Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Varunmuni, Sanjay Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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4. develop familiarity. He should not introduce himself by stating his y
family, his caste and his relatives. He should be free from attachment for : food. He should be free from hatred. He should not despise a person who y uses to offer food, who offers insufficient food or who offers tasteless food. y He should not seek mercy. He should not feel sad if he is not able to get y any offering. He should continuously engage himself in right state of mind, speech and action. A monk should strive for safe-guarding the
element he has got beneficial to his ascetic discipline and he should 45 make efforts to procure those beneficial things in ascetic life which he
has not got as yet. He should be humble. He should have good qualities like benevolence and others. Such a monk while collecting alms visits houses high and low and should accept only a little form each of them. i After collecting bhiksha, he should come to his spiritual master. He should repent for the faults if any incurred in coming and going. After pratikarman (prescribed code of repentance), he should show the food and water that he has collected to his master. Thereafter as directed by
his master or any senior monk appointed by the master for guidance, he 4i should again do repentance keeping his body in a state of meditation
(non-attachment towards the body) and free from slackness, for the 4 faults incurred in collection of alms as prescribed in the scriptures.
Thereafter he should sit quietly in meditation about Dharma for 48 45 minutes. He should engage in service of his master. He should engage 4 Si his mind in study of scriptures and meditate on its inner thought. He i
should engage himself in right knowledge and right conduct. He should avoid the state of mental void. He should be free from disturbance, quarrel or stubborn attitude. He should have an equanimous mind. He should establish his mind in a state of subdued passions. He should have deep faith. He should have a keen desire for liberation and shedding of
Karmas. He should have deep interest in lessons about scriptures. He 15 should get up in such a state of mind and invite happily and in a
contented manner other monks, junior and senior to him, for food 4 according to their seniority in ascetic life.
After distributing the food among the monks, he should take his seat. He should then clean his body and the palm of his hand properly. He should then take his food in a detached manner. He should not be greedy about tasty food. He should not be attached to their juices. He should not condemn the food or the doner. He should not have attachment in tasty
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