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Niyamasara
unpleasant - experiences in his being tranquility characterized by supreme equanimity independent of activities of the mind, the speech and the body, and pleasures of the senses. Others cannot experience such tranquility.
नियमसार
The instrumental cause for becoming an ascetic is the body, and the body requires food for sustenance. The ascetic therefore accepts food. In order to attain stability of concentration, he also accepts, according to his capacity, fasting. For attaining stability of the mind, he dwells in the solitude of mountainous caves. For accepting food, he has to roam through places where people live. He inherently has the possession (parigraha) of the body (sarira). He has to interact, for study, etc., with other ascetics. He has to use words, the material substance, as the mode of conversation. All these are kinds of possessions for the ascetic, but what is important is not to have a sense of attachment for these possessions. These are minute (sūkṣma) possessions and entertaining a sense of attachment even with these causes a breach of restraint for the ascetic; with these possessions he cannot establish himself in the pure soul-substance.1
1- see Acārya Kundakunda's Pravacanasāra – Essence of the Doctrine, p. 267.
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