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ascetic to stand in the Kayotsarga posture for a whole night or longer. Also in the rites of the Sravakas, the two Asanas are frequent.
6. Samlinata, i.e., withdrawing one's senses from all impure objects, particularly by avoiding to stay longer in closer connection with persons and even animals of the other sex, or by trying to suppress one's passions and to reduce one's activities, except such of a ritualistic nature.
Interior Austerities. 1. The first of the interior austerities is the Prayaschilta, i.e., Atonement for transgressions. It is composed of ton different elements, viz. (a) Alochana, i.e. confession before the Guru, (b) Pratikramana, i.e. repentance, which includes the promise strictly to avoid the respective transgressions in future, (c) Misra Prayaschilta, i.e. a combination of the two elements, (d) Viveka, i.e. renunciation, (e) Kayotsarga, i.e. stopping, as far as possible, the activity of one's body, (f) Austerities, (g) Chheda, i.e. the partial cutting of one's seniority, (b) Mula Prayaschilla, i.e. the complete cutting of the latter, (i) Anavasthapya Prayaschitta, i.e. the complete cutting of the seniority, and delaying, for a long period, a repetition of the Great Initiation, (j) Paramchila Prayaschitta, i.e. exclusion from the order for twelve years.
2. The second interior austerity is Vinaya, i.e. appropriate behaviour with reference to study, to one's fellowascetics, to the ritualistic and ethical rules, to one' Guru, etc.
3. Vaigavrittya, i.e. unselfish service, corresponds, to some extent, to the idea of Bhakti in Hindu Religion. Vaiya. vrittya, or Voyavachcha, as it is generally called, with its old Prakrit name, is to be rendered to one's superiors by rank and seniority, to sick fellow-ascetics, or such engaged in austerities, to young ascetics, to one's cloger or wider ascetical community, and to the Sangha, the general community.
4. Soadhyaya, i.e. Study, viz. teaching and lgarping, discussing, repeating, meditating upon, and proaching, op roļigious matters.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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