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STAGES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
213 nothing or eat nothing for twelve, twenty-four, thirty-six, fortyeight or seventy-two counsecutive hours once a week, once a month, or at least once a year. Partial Transgressions
1. The first of these refers more to India or any hot country; it is not being particular to avoid killing insects by one's clothes or one's bedding, and
2. Not taking something to clear away whatever insects there may be.
3. Not being particular to avoid killing anything in performing the offices of nature.
4. Despising the ceremony itself. 5. Forgetting any of the necessary things to be done in this
VOW.
TWELFTH VOW
Šib
(Atithisamvibhāga-Vrata)
“Atithisamvibhāga" vow. Atithi means a guest, and sarn vibhāga means to distribute, share with. The vow is an undertaking to invite some Jaina monk (or in the absence of a monk some respectable Jaina layman, or in the absence of both, to do so in thought), on the day following the fast undertaken in the previous VOW, or whenever opportunity offers, to partake of some of the food about to be eaten, without informing the guest of the vow to do this; and only the things which are partaken of by the monk should be eaten at the time. It is things which are necessary for life that are partaken of; and books, clothing, medicines, etc., as well as food, may be offered to the person invited.
This vow, if taken, must be practised at least once a year. Partial Transgressions?
Offering food with life in it to a monk; fruit, for instance, not cut. After fifty minutes of being cut, fruit is considered to contain
1. Tattvārthasütra, VII. 29. Yogasästra III. 117. 2. Tattvårhasūtra, VII. 31. Yogasastra, III. 118.
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