Introduction to Jainism

Author(s): A B Latthe
Publisher: Natha Rangaji

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quires complete celebacy and conquest of the sexual desire. The eighth is that stage of life in which engagements like commerce, agriculture, service etc are completly abdndoned. The next The ninth stage is reached when a
Stages man gives up the ten external appensummarised dages such as wealth, corn, cattle etc and keeps the mind unruffled.
The tenth stage requires a man to be free from interfering with and consenting to occupations, marriages etc. The final stage of a layman is that in which he leaves home alto gether, goes to some ascetic from whom he takes vows, lives by mendicacy, donns a very small piece of cloth only and practices Tapas all the time. A man rising to a higher stage must rise by each successive stage along the march and must keep all the practices of each stage below.
Tapas is twelvefold; [1] Fasting ( 2 ) Eating Tapas less than a full meal ( 3 ) fixing dinners ( 4 ) omitting some Ras ( ghee etc ) from