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MANAV DHARMA / 97 of bread or the food is well arranged, with proper respect and humbleness, at a householder's residence, he accepts it with great satisfaction. Then he starts self meditation and tries to put a check and control over all the five senses - their subjects of pleasure along with the mind and body. The important duty of an abstainer is to accept what is offered with all contentment. Hence after accepting the offered meals, he also brings some warm water in his “Kamandalu” which is used for washing, when there is a call of nature and for washing clothes.
Such an abstainer disregards the activities of digging the land, sprinkling of water, to lit the fire, blowing of air and destroying green fruits and flowers or treading the green grass, because all these are the cause of inflicting injury to mobile or immobile germs and insects. flies and mosquittoes. The conclusion is to say that the abstainer wants to become a self sufficient man in the mental thinking. His abstinence has reached to such a degree that he has renounced the use of vehicle of any kind for his movements and for travelling here and there or from one place to another. Now what character is followed by a Vratti of Ninth Pratimadhari is explained in the following verse:
बाह्येषु दशसु वस्तुषु ममत्व-मुत्सृज्य निर्ममत्वरतः ।
स्वस्थः सन्तोषपर: परिचित परिग्रहाद्विरतः ॥१४५॥ Explanation :
He, who giving up the sense of possession in the ten kinds of worldly goods, and finding pleasure in a feeling of renunciation, becomes steadfast in the contemplation of his self and in developing contentment in his soul - such a one is a "Parichitta Parigraha Virata Shrawaka".
Note :- The ten kinds of worldly goods are as followes :1. Land 2. House 3. Silver 4. Gold 5. Cattle 6. Grain 7. Maidservants 8. Man-servant 9. Clothes 10. Utensils. Description :
The man, who has given up the sense of possession over land, building, wealth and other house-hold goods and is now leading a healthy and well contented life, with no attachment to worldly possessions, is known as “PARIGRAHA TYAGI”. While observing the life up to Eighth Pratima, in which the man has given up all undertakings, professions and even cut off the relations from family members like wife, children, brothers and also with their responsiblities, and has left every thing at their descretion. Now he thinks that the family members should invite him for meals, which should be simple
