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CONTROL AND REGULATION OF ACTIVITIES
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Samyagyoganigraho guptiņ 4. Curbing activity well is control (gupti).
Activity has been explained already under VI, 1. Restraining self-willed activity is restraint. The attribute 'well' is intended to prohibit activity leading to worldly pleasures. When the threefold activity of the body, the sense-organ of speech and the mind is curbed well, there is no room for evil disposition. So there is no inflow of karma due to activity, and consequently there is stoppage of influx. Restraint is of three kinds, control of bodily activity, control of vocal activity and control of mental activity.
For the benefit of the ascetic, who is unable to restrain activity altogether, activity free from injury is indicated.
ईर्याभाषेपणादाननिक्षेपोत्सर्गाः समितयः
Iryābhāşaişanādānanikṣepotsargāḥ samitaya? (5) 5. Walking, speech, eating, lifting and laying down and depositing waste products constitute the fivefold regulation of activities.
Sanyak' (carefulness in) is supplied. Walking etc. are qualified by this. That is carefulness in walking, carefulness in speech, carefulness in eating, carefulness in lifting and laying down and carefulness in depositing waste products. These five kinds of regulations are the means by which the ascetic acquainted with the dwelling places of minute organisms avoids injury to organisms. In the case of an ascetic who conducts himself in this manner, there is stoppage of influx arising from non-restraint.
The third means of stoppage is virtue. Its subdivisions are mentioned in the next sutra. उत्तमक्षमामार्दवावसत्यशौचसंयमतपस्त्यागाकिञ्चन्यब्रह्म
agitur : Ultamakşamāmārdavārjavasatyaśaucasamyamalapastyāgākiñcanyabrahmacaryāņi dharmaḥ
(6), 6. Supreme forbearance, modesty, straightforwardness, purity, truthfulness, self-restraint, austerity, renunciation, non-attachment and celibacy constitute virtue or duty.
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