Prasamrati Prakarana

Author(s): Umaswati, Umaswami, Mahesh Bhogilal, V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Nita M Bhogilal & Others

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sub-sections, which by expanding on what is given in the first section, deal with seven types of conduct as follows: 1) How to go and beg for food, 2) How to live, where there is absence of women, animals and eunuchs. 3) How to move oneself properly. 4) How to speak properly. 5) How to gather material for dressing. 6) How to use other things mainly the begging bowls. 7) How to behave properly in the place of one's temporary habitat.
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117. The second chapter has again seven sub-sections dealing with further seven types of conduct as follows: 1) How to live and do one's practices. 2) Where to study. 3) Where to do one's bodily routines. 4) How to give up likes and dislikes towards what one hears. 5) How to give up likes and dislikes towards what one hears. 6) How not to behave with others. 7) How and what the Sadhus should avoid when interacting among themselves.
The third chapter has only one sub-section. It deals with thoughts and felling. It explains with which Bhāvanās the five major vows namely Ahimsa (not to kill), Satya (to speak truth), Asteya (not to steal), Brahmacarya (to remain celibate) and Aparigraha(not to gather possessions) become firm in oneself.
The fourth chapter deals with how by partial and complete discarding of sin of various types, one achieves freedom from Karmas. This chapter is called Vimukti.
The fifth chapter deals with methods of purification, when, what is done in accordance with the details given in the first four chapters is defective (i.e. with Prayaścitta).
118. Thus by following, in accordance with all the details given, these rules of conduct of the Sadhus, that have been enumerated in eighteen thousand words in the Acārānga-Sutra, the desires and aversions are destroyed along with the roots, that is, completely destroyed.