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An Analytic Summary of the Sbh.
clxxix (b) caused by protection (ārakṣākstaḥ): one has to
protect food in too many ways to be devised; (c) Degraded and fallen due to love and affection
(snehaparibhraíśakrtah) : father and son, brother and sister, son and mother, all become inconsi
derate to each other on account of food; (d) Caused by dissatisfaction (atrptikrtah) : on dissatis
faction even struggles are possible, only for food
or gross satisfaction of the body; (e) Caused by the lack of freedom (of will) and
independence (asvātantr yakştah) : people become dependent on account of food and experience too
many difficulties and face even death for it; (f) Caused by wickedness (duścaritakştah): on account
of food, people are engaged in doing many bad
deeds through which demerits are accumulated.
Taking into consideration all this, one takes meal only for survival, maintenance and nourishment, for the existence of the body through which he neither feels troubled nor his brahmacarya- vow is affected. The food taken by a renounced pudgala is, thus, sacred and simple (anavadya).
(b) Four kinds of ahāra : Four kinds of Ahāra (nutri
ment) have been enumerated in detail: (a) gross material nutriment (Kabadańkāra āhārah) (b) contact (sparsa; (c) fine nourishment in the form of the will of
mind (manaḥ sarcetanā); (d) consciousness (vijñāna). (e) The detailed description of āhāra (nutrition)
which comprises the following discussions : It is taken
