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improper, but beneficial. Samantabhadra says that one should perform Sāmāyika till the time one fixes for it according to one's own mental states.2 After withdrawing oneself from all kinds of worldly activities, and after subduing all mental disturbances, one should increase the duration of Sāmāyika on the fasting and half-fasting days. It should also be gradually enhanced daily, since Sāmāyika serves as a great cause for fulfilling the five vows.* 3) Sitting and standing postures are generally recommended for the performance of Sāmāyika. 4-7) The aspirant should purge the mind of sensual pleasures by concentrating on the sermons of the Jina, adopt submissive and surrendering gestures, and finally, either repeat the devotional hymns mentally or absorb himself in self-meditation. He should bear hardships caused by cold, heat, insect-biting as well as troubles created by enemy without breaking silence, and without disturbing the purity of physical, mental and vocal activities.? By the performance of Sāmāyika he who keeps in view the aforementioned requisites is naturally led to abandon even all the subtle vices which entangle the householder.8 And for the time one fixes for the act of Sāmāyika, one approaches asceticism. . • The five transgressions which should be avoided are: Losing one's control over 1) mind, 2) body and 3) Speech, 4) lacking interest in Sāmāyika, and 5) forgetfulness of Sāmāyika.10
NATURE OF PROSADHOPAVĀSAVRATA: Samantabhadra11 and others"2 enunciate the Prosadhopavāsavrata as renouncing the four kinds of food on the eighth and fourteenth lunar days in each fortnight. Probably keeping in view the infirmness of disciples, Kārttikeya13 also includes the eating of unseasoned food once a day in the Proșadhopavāsavrata, and Amita gati14 and Āsādhara15 also comprise the taking of
1 Puru. 149. 2 Ratna. Srāva. 98. 3 Ratna. Śrāva. 100. 4 Ratna. Śrāva. 101. 5 Kärtti. 355. Kārtti. 355, 356. 7 Ratna. Śrāva. 103, Căritrasāra. p. 19. 8 Ratna. Śrāva. 102: Kārtti. 357: Puru. 150.
Ratna. Śrāva. 102: Kārtti 357; Puru. 150. 10 Ratna. Śrāva. 105. Puru. 191; Ta. sū. VII. 33; Dharma. Bi. 164; Srāva. Prajña.
312-317. 11 Ratna. Śrāva. 106. 12 Puru. 151; Sāgā. Dharmā. V. 34; Amita. Śrāva. VI. 88; Tattvarthavrtti. VIL. 21.
Kartti. 359. Yas. & Ic. p. 282. 13 Kärtti. 359. 14 Amita. Srāva. VI. 90. 15 Sägā. Dharmā. V. 35.
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