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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
the remaining four.
(3) Only after proper consideration to beg for a place needed for shelter—that is begging after proper consideration. In the case of a place of shelter many sorts of owners are possiblee.g. a king, a chief householder, a śayyātara (i.e. any person in possession of a place that has been begged for), a co-religionist; now it is particularly proper that this place be begged from whoever be its proper owner; however, it is possible that an owner has taken back the place he had earlier offered but that it is again required owing to illness etc; in that case to frequently beg this place from its owner—so that he might not be put to inconvenience is called 'frequently begging for shelter'; at the very time when a place for shelter is begged from its owner if a limit is fixed to it then it is called 'fixing a limit to shelter'; if a place for shelter has already been begged by a co-religionist but an occasion arises for it to be used by oneself then to beg it from this co-religionist is called 'begging shelter from a co-religionist'; when eatables, drinkables etc. have been properly procured and shown to the preceptor then to partake of them only after receiving the preceptor's permission is called 'eating and drinking as per permission.'
(4) For a man or woman practising continence not to use a bedding or a seat used by a being of a different sex—that is refraining from the use of bedding etc. used by a woman, an animal, an impotent person; for a person practising continence not to indulge in talks rousing sexual passion—that is refraining from passionate talks about women; for a person practising continence not to look at such bodily parts of a person belonging to a different sex as rouse sexual passion—that is refraining from looking at the beautiful bodily organs of a woman; not to recall the sensuous enjoyments that one experienced before adopting the life of continence—that is refraining from recalling the sexual enjoyments earlier experienced; not to consume eatables and drinkables that rouse sexual passion—that is refraining from taking delicious food.
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