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SAN NYASA DEARMA
Jaina saints should not stay in a locality where the passions are easily excited, where respect is no shown to the pious and the good, where people are grossly ignorant, where temptations are many and numerous, where gaily-dressed females are prominent everywhere, where there is much discontent and where they themselves have to face much trouble. Similarly, the place where there is anarchy, or where the king is unjust, where it is difficult to obtain food, where the people are not interested in dharma or the adoption of the saintly life, and where samyama (selfcontrol) is interfered with, is not to be approached by the ascetics.
The saint should avoid transgressions, partial and entire, of his vows and be ever eager to work off his sins by means of confession and suitable penance. The partial transgressions of vows are variously termed atikarma, vyatikarma, and atichāra; and their entire violation is anachāra, More particularly,
Atikarma is the intention to transgress, i.e, the entertainment of desire for senseindulgence;
Vyatikarma is the preparation for the act of sense-indulgence;
Atichara is the qualified or partial indulgence in opposition to the purport of the vow; and
Anachara is the direct and complete violation of
its sanctity.
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