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SUBDIVISIONS OF THE INTERNAL AUSTERITIES
up attachment to the body, penance, suspension, expulsion and reinitiation.
Relating one's transgression to the master without the ten faults is confession. Expression of penitence by uttering, 'my deeds be condoned', is repentance. As the sin is corrected by the combination of the two, it is twofold expiation. The separation of food, drink, implements of sense-control, etc. is discrimination. The next is performance of austerity by standing in a place etc. without any attachment for the body. Penance is fasting, taking less than one's fill, etc. Discounting the period of penance by a week, a fortnight, a month, etc. is suspension. Expelling one from the order for a fortnight, a month etc., is expulsion which is another kind of expiation. Reinitiation consists in initiation into the order once again.
The subdivisions of reverence are mentioned in the next sutra.
ज्ञानदर्शनचारित्रोपचाराः Jñānadarśanacãritropacārāḥ
(23) 23. Reverence to knowledge, faith, conduct and the custom of homage.
'Vinaya' is added to the words in the sutra-reverence to knowledge, reverence to faith, reverence to conduct and reverence to the custom of homage. Acquiring knowledge, practising knowledge, recollecting knowledge and so on with great veneration and with the object of attaining salvation constitute reverence to knowledge. Belief in the nature of reality without doubt etc. is reverence to faith. Absorption in conduct with knowledge and faith is reverence to conduct. Rising up, offering welcome and making obeisance in the presence of the head of the order of ascetics and other great ones constitute reverential homage. Even with regard to the great ones who are not present, making obeisance with the body, speech or mind, extolling their merits and recollecting them also constitute reverence to the custom of homage.
The subdivisions of respectful service are described next.
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