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Jaina Acara : Siddhanta aura Svarupa (2) He should not talk of women's beauty and the like.
He should not sit close to a woman. Even when she gets up, the seat should not be used for forty-eight minutes. He should not observe women's beauty and immediately take his sight away from them.
He must not overhear their conversation, songs etc. (6) He must not recall earlier ventures. (7) He should not take heavy, juicy food. (8) Too much of even stale food must not be taken. (9) He must not deck the body.
The Digambaras have given ten rules for the preservation of chastity :(1) He should not desire his sense-organs to come in contact with their
objects. (2) He should do nothing which should hurt his sex-organs any way. (3) He should abstain from passion-inciting food. (4) He should not occupy seats already taken by women. (5) He should not look at their faces. (6) He should not play host to women. (7) He should not deck his body. (8) He must not recall earlier amorous intercourses. (9) He should not desire future sexual affair at all, (10) He should not fix his mind on desired beauty.
The second, sixth and tenth rules are different; the rest are the same.
A hedge has to be erected for the preservation of agricultural produce. Likewise the above rules are designed to protect celibacy.
Today nude pictures are shown, not to talk of semi-nude ones. Even our old chaste and virtuous ladies are shown in modern dress on screens. The plots of pictures, their music and dance are just to titillate the senses. The audience that is already sensuous is made still more sensuous. The cinema has little moral or educational motif. It is wholly commercialized with little artistic value.
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have stressed truth, character, honesty and the like.
The Jaina monk and nuns cannot mixup. Their convents are always separate. Even then under some exceptional circunstances their only duty would be to help one another and tide over the crisis. The Acarayas were Jain Education International ** For Private & Personal Use Only
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