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Jaina Acara : Siddhānta aura Swarūpa
once is 'Paribhoga' as bed, clothes, seat etc. These two words have been interpreted differently in some scriptures. What is relished internally is "Upbhoga', 'Paribhoga' is to enjoy things externally. To facilitate the observance of this vow, some scriptures have given twenty six tips. They are (1) Towel to wipe the body. (2) Tooth-powder-In the past times people used the twigs of acacia, margosa, liquorice etc to brush their teeth. (3) Fruits (4) Oil for massaging (5) Smearing with cosmetic paste. (6) Water for bath. (7) Clothes to wear. (8) Smearing with sandal etc.(9) To set a limit to flowers. (10) Ornaments (11) Incense sticks to purify the atmosphere.
These invigorate the body. The list that follows gives added strength and nourishment to the body. (12) Beverages such as milk, syrup, buttermilk etc. (13) Breakfast (14) 'Odana', i.e. those which are properly boiled in fire as rice and mash or porridge. (15)Soup, pulses etc. which are a concomitant of bread and rice. (16) Vigaya, i.e. milk, curd, ghee, oil and sugar. Honey and butter are ‘mahāvigaya' which may be used medicinally, but never otherwise. Wine and meat are out of question. (17) Cooked vegetables.(18) Madhuraka, e.g.mango, bananas, black plum, orange, apple, pomegranate etc. Then there are dry fruits such as almond, pistachio-nut, raisin etc. (19) Food to satisfy hunger as cake fried in ghee or oil, bread etc. (20) Potable water, hot, cold, sweet-smelling, brackish etc. (21) Purifying the mouth with betel-leaves, betel-nut etc. (22) Conveyances like elephant, horse, bullock etc. (23) Boots, chappals etc, to cover the feet. (24) Bed and seat, cot, pillow plank, bedstead etc. (25) To limit things with life (26) Different items of food which are not eaten together. Shun five categories as follows:
(1) Things which are fatal to moving beings such as silken cloth, codliver oil, hemoglobin etc. (2) Miscellaneous : In the preparatory stage there is no injury to any beings, but when they are ready, insects are generated or innumerable lifeless objects are destroyed, the glaring illustration of which is wine. (3) Those which generate negligence, lethargy such as not easily digestible sweets, spiced food etc., eating a little too much of sweets. Too soft beds are also to be avoided. (4) Harmful-which spoil health as half-baked food. (5) Not worth being used, which is not approved by society because of its being reprehensible, as untasted fruit; meat, fish, eggs etc. There are five transgressions of it, the implication of which is that things eaten primarily for taste are obstructions to man's spiritual progress.
(1) Food with life. It may not be within limitation, but all the same it is hurtful.
(2) Sacittapratibaddhara - To eat by mistake some lifeless object which you had renounced but is mixed up with some thing live e.g. to eat a thing stuck with some other thing which may be lifeless, as gum stuck to a tree, date palm, or mango with its stone.
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