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and (4) business, on the two 8th, one 5th, 15th and 30th days of a month etc. ought to lead the life of a sâdhu (recluse) by doing Dharma, meditating, remembering the qualifications of panchpermeshti etc. for 24 hours, i. e., perform what is called poshad karma. He ought to give alms to a deserving person, to the needy and also to the persons in trouble, carry on business according to rules of justice. This is a short description of the mode of a householder's life according to Jainism. Secondly I briefly deal with the duty of a recluse.
A sâdhu-a recluse ought not to injure any life, ought not to speak any kind of falsehood, ought not to commit any kind of theft, ought not to indulge in any kind of sexual intercourse, and ought not to have a desire for any thing. He should entirely abstain from these five things. He ought not to stay anywhere considering it to be his own place, ought to take in begging madhukari bhikshâ free from 42 defects, ought to regard a friend and
