Agam 10 Ang 10 Prashna Vyakaran Sutra Sthanakvasi

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

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The third sentiment is primarily connected with the sense of sight. A $ practitioner of vow of chastity avoids seeing such a scene what is likely
to infuse desire for sexual enjoyments, lust and attachment. He should
not stare at the laughter, talk and sexual activities of women, their 4 dance, their physical appearance, their body, their complexion, their
hand and feet, their beauty, their beauty of youth, their breasts, private parts, clothes, ornaments and lustre. He should immediately remove his attention from that site where he happens to see a woman. By doing so the chance of attachment or delusion does not arise in the mind. In brief one who practices chastity, he should avoid such scene, which adversely affect austerities, restraints and partially or completely affect his life of brahmcharya.
Fourth sentiment is to avoid the amorous enjoyments of the period spent as householder. There are many followers of ascetic path who had spent a married life in their state as a householder and adopted monkhood thereafter. Their brain has the memories of the events of that period. In case those thoughts due to any event arise in the mind again,
they make it restless. They pollute the heart and sometime the monk 4 feels in his imagination that he is experiencing the same pleasures. He
forgets for sometime his present state as a monk. Such a condition adversely affects his austerities, self-restraint and chastity; so a brahmchari should avoid such situations which may awaken desire for sexual pleasures.
Fifth sentiment is about food. It is deeply related to vow of chastity. Energetic food that instigates the ego and the senses adversely affects Si chastity. Only that person is capable of properly practicing the vow of 9 4 chastity who has full control over his sense of taste. He who takes tasty,
sweet and energetic food, he cannot practice this vow properly. So it is said down that one should not take milk, curd, ghee, butter, oil and they like in his meals. Honey, meat and wine should be completely avoided as they are the cause of great disturbance in the mind. In a nutshell, the
person who is practicing the vow of chastity, he should take tasteless, dry 5 food that does not cause any hurt to living being. His food should not
assist in creating or increasing lust so that he may properly lead his ascetic life of restraint.
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