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44 / MANAV DHARMA Description :
To start a practice for giving up slowly the various varieties of foods and delicious sweet dishes, various types of conveyances like elephant, Horse, Ox camel, Motor, Rail, Couches like double or single bed, easy chair, bathing with oil massage, wearing of garlands of flowers use of betel leaf and supari etc clothes like the use of shirts, dhotties, kurtas, coat etc.; wearing various type of omaments; activities of co-habitation, music, dancing, Drama, theatre, cinema, singing songs and so on and among all the above mentioned things if these are totally renounced by a man, then his appreciations are beyond descriptive limits. But even if these are abandoned for a limited period of an hour, a day or a night, for Twenty four hours, for a week or for a fortnight, for a month or two or for half a year, that is known as NIYAMA. The main idea is to control the five senses of touch, taste seeing, hearing or smelling. We must take some Niyama in our daily routine life regarding not eating a specific item for a limited period, or other activities of other senses. Now for those who rigidly want to adopt Bhogopabhoga Parimana Vrata, they should also keep in mind the following :
विषय विषतोऽनुप्रेक्षानुस्मृतिरति-लौल्य-मति-तुषाऽनुभवौ । भोगोपभोग-परिमा-व्यतिक्रमाः पञ्च कथ्यन्ते ॥१०॥
Explanation :
Constant craving for the venom (for sensual enjoyment) dwelling upon pleasurable experiences of the past, abandoning one self to the sensations of pleasures at the time of indulgence, cherishing insatiable craving for gratification of senses in future and going through sensuous experiences in imagination - these are called the five transgressions of the “Bhogophabhoga Parimana Vrata.' Description :
Craving for sensual enjoyments of eating and other outwardly objects is nothing but like the use of Poison; As poison either causes death or makes unconscious, so also this soul loses its peace and becomes impatient in the gratification of senses and their desires and eventually he dies. Man forgets his - real self and like a warp, that goes on around the lotus allurided by its fragrance, he also forgets, in the use of external objects, his own realtiy, and becomes mad. Hence five transgressions, as explained above have been mentioned for those persons who have taken a vow of Bhogopbhoga Pariman Vrata. Otherwise. it will become completely impossible to protect this Vrata.
