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12- ATITHI SAMVIBHAG VRAT - SHARING WITH
GUESTS AND OTHERS
This vow is to share food and provisions with ascetics, or with whoever, who may come to get food and provisions. I shall cherish desire of offering and sharing with monks and others who have renounced everything; who take only innocent food and water, who wear simple white clothes, use wooden pots and utensils, etc.
There are following five major violations pertaining to this vow of sharing with guests and others:
1. Mixing inanimate and animate things while offering,
2. Covering inanimate with animate things with an intention to avoid offering,
3. Offering something, which is spoiled, fermented or stale?
4. Asking others to offer instead of offering oneself, in spite of being personally able to offer, or
5. Indulging in pride for offering.
If I have indulged in any of the above acts, then may all my such sins be dissolved. TASSA MICHCHHAMI DUKKADAM.
પ્રતિક્રમણ સ્થાપના સૂત્ર
Savvassa vi samvachchharia duchchintia, dubbhäsia,
duchchitthia,
Ichchhä-kärena sandisaha bhagavan! Ichchham,
Tassa michchhä mi dukkadam. (1)
Ichchhakari bhagwan,
Pasay kari samvachchhari tap prasad karshoji.
Oh bhagaväna! kindly give me the permission voluntarily to perform the pratikramana of all the faults committed during the year by evil thoughts, evil talks and evil deeds. I accept your orders. Those misdeeds of mine may become fruitless. (1)
(ગુરૂજી હોય તો તે કહે, નહીં તો પોતે નીચે પ્રમાણે કહે.)
