Introduction to Jainsim

Author(s): Dewan Bahadur A B Lathe
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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JAINISM
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the limits of the former Vows. Its observance entails avoidance of five faults which are (1) sending men beyond the limits (2) The Shiksha sending verbal messages beyond the limits
(3) ordering things from beyond the limits (4) making signs by physical movements and ( 5 ) by movements of outward objects.
Vritas
The second is Samayika. It consists in a man's fixing a :Samayika certain time in morning, noon and cvening and spending that time in devotion, reading the scriptures and concentration sitting or standing in some loncly placc. At this a man should confess and repent all the cvil donc, spoken or thought of. This is called Pratikarman, which is a part of Samayika. A resolution not to commit the same mistake over again, is called Pratyakhyan, which also is included in Samajika It is a great penance and it purifies tlic mind. To those praising the greatness of the God, making three salutations to cach of the four directions and giving up desires over the body are added to make up the “six ncccssitics." The fivc faults to be avoided here are [1] non-fixing of the body (2) ilc mind and (3) the tongue lo onc purpose, [4] non-reverence towards inc Samnyika and ( 5 ) forgetting the lessons or the rites of the Samapikn. The avoidance of these makes thic Sannsika faultless.
The third Shiksha l'rita is Prosladkopavas. A man obserie ing it has to keep a compicic or partial fast on the prescribed i. c. cvery cighth day of Hindu fortnight. All ic day is to be Proslındhomasas spent in a lonely place in reading scriptures or mcditating over asccticism. The best form of the Vow is in obscrving it for the whole day prescribed, in addition to the proceeding and following twelve hours. To be faultless, its obscrvance must avoid ( 1 ) spreading the bed (2) observing the