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Partial Transgressions.* Offering food with life in it to a monk; fruit, for instance, not cut. After fifty minutes of being cut, fruit is considered to contain no life constituting the body of the fruit.
Putting living things among food which is free from life; for instance putting fresh cold water, which has life, with water that has been boiled. In the Jain belief fresh cold water is a mass of living substance, and not merely the home of minute life or anima. culate.
Giving the food etc., in a grudging spirit.
Saying that something which the monk may have asked us for and which we do not wish to give belongs to a friend or some one else.
loviting the monk at a time which we know to be after he has taken his meal.
That is the end of twelve special rules for helping to change ourselves from what we actually are, ignorant, mistaken, weak, injurious beings to what we potentially are according to the teachings of those Masters who have developed their spiritual qualities to perfection and have attained omniscience in the flesh. The rules are based upon a certain foundation
* Tattvārth, S. VII, 31. Yogasastra, 111, 118.
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