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The Concept of Pancasila in Indian Thought
The vow of the monk proclaims1 the abstention from all forms of sex-indulgence which can broadly be grouped under three heads : (1) that which pertains to the sexual union of gods and goddesses, (2) that which pertains to the union of animals (male and female), (3) that pertaining to the human beings. He abstains from doing or arranging it himself, or getting it done by others, or from its appreciation, through mind, speech and body for the whole life, i. e. by the three instruments (yogas) and three performances ( karanas ) . In this manner the monk abstains from twenty-seven kinds of sexual activity without the slightest transgression. At another place it is said that this abstinence from sex indulgence is of eighteen kinds.2
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The five Bhāvanās
It is said that the monk always abstains from all major and minor acts of sexual indulgence. With this end in view he tries with five helping devices to observe the vow: (1) the monk, it is said, should cultivate a bhāvanā of giving up the use of beds and other requisites which are used by men and women; (2) the monk or nun should not relate stories of men
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अहावरे चउत्थे भंते । महव्वए मेहुणवरे मणं । सव्वं भंते मेहुणं पचक्खामि । से दिव्वं वा माणुसं वा तिरिक्ख जोणियं वा नैव सयं मेहुणं सेविज्जा, नेवऽण्णेहि मेहुणं सेवाविज्जा महुणं सेवतेऽवि अण्णे समणुजाणामि । जावज्जीवाए तिविहं तिविहणं मणेणं वायाए कायेणं न करेमि न कारवेम करतंपि अण्णं न समणुजाणामि महत्वए
ओमि सव्वाओ मेहुणाओ वेरमणं ।
-Daśav. 4.10.
दिवा कामरसुहातिविहं तिविहेणं नव विहा विरई । ओरालिया उवितहातं वंभं अट्ठदसमेयं ।
-Samavāya, 18; Avasy. Nir., Pratikramaṇādhyayana.
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3. इत्थीपसुपंडगसंसत्तगसयणासणवज्झणया, इत्थीकहाविवज्जणया, इत्थीणं इन्दिया मालोयणवज्जणया पुव्वरयपुष्वकीलियाणं अणणुसरणया, पणीताहारवज्जणया । – Samavāya, 25.
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