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Nirjara
192 1. Anashan : Discarding food. That means performing Upavas, Ekasan, Biyasan, Chauvihar, Tivihar, Abhigraha etc.
2. Unodari : Eating a little less than what one requires so that his austerities may achieve success. This is also a kind of austerity.
3. Vritti Sankshep : Limiting the number of items to be eaten out of the items served. Taking a vow that one would not eat certain items other than some.
4. Kayaklesh: Bearing with the severities of loch (removing hair with the hand), traversing on foot, impediments and difficulties. Upasarga here means the impediments caused by Gods, human beings and animals.
5. Rasatyag : Renouncing the attachment for taste in food and drinks.
6. Samlinata : Preventing the body, organs, the voice, the senses and the mind from engaging themselves in evil propensities and restraining them.
The six kinds of internal austerities : Prayashchitta, Vinaya, Vaiyavachcha, Swadhyaya, Dhyan and Kayotsarg. Prayashchittha means atonement for sins.
1. Prayashchitta : Self-scrutiny relating to spiritual purification; the purification of the chitta and the destructions of karmas. There are 10 kinds of Prayashchittas.
(i) Alochana : Self-criticism revealing to the Guru
maharaj the propensity that prompted one to commit sins committed by one after thinking about them.
(ii) Prathikraman : Discarding sins by means of genuine
repentance (mityadushkruta) (May my sins be
falsified). (iii) Viveka : Discarding unnecessary and unacceptable
food and other substances. (iv) Vyutsarga : Carrying out a kayotsarg to avoid impe
diments to the study of sutras or prathikraman or the pursuit of knowledge.
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