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A Treatise on Jainism
days, limiting enjoyment everyday of consumable and non-consummable things, and to his duty of daily giving charity in the form of knowledge, medicine, comfort or protection, and food.
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(3) Samayika (Worship) Pratima. In this stage he practises faultless contemplation regularly, three times, in the morning, at midday and in the evening, at least for 48 minutes everytime. Worship means Self-contemplation and purifying one's ideas and emotions.
(4) Proshadhopavasa (Fortnightly must fast) Pratima. In this stage, he observes regularly a fast faultlessly twice a fortnight i.e., on the 8th and 14th days of each lunar fortnight.
(5) Sachitta Tyaga Pratima. In this stage he does not take animate water and vegetable etc. Sachitta Tyaga means abstinence from the flesh of conscious creatures. He refrains from taking fresh vegetable because they are living.
(6) Ratri-Bhukta Tyaga Pratima. (Abstinence from eating at night). He does not take or give food or drink at night. minute living beings which no
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