Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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in bad meditation-painful and evil, the teaching of evil conduct, the giving of assistance to injury, and careless conduct, in contrast to intentional injury to the body, etc., is the third guņavrata.
Tranquillity for three-quarters of an hour of one whid has abandoned painful and evil meditation, and has abandoned censurable activity is known as the sāmāyikavrata. The further limitation of the distance allowed in the digvrata, day and night, is called the deśāvakāśikavrata. The posadhavrata is the observance of the caturtha-fast, etc., on the four moon-days in the month,970 abstention from wicked acts, chastity, and abandonment of business, bathing, etc. Giving fourfold food, utensils, clothes, and shelter to guests is called the atithisamvibhāga.
These three jewels must be unremittingly observed in full by monks, and also by laymen, in order to acquire mokşa."
The foundation of the tirtha (644-92) After listening to this sermon, Bharata's son, Rşabhasena, rose, bowed, and declared to Rşabha Svāmin : “O Master, you rain the best nectar of the principles on this forest of existence, cruel with the forest-fires of passions, like a new cloud. You are attained by people terrified of existence, O Lord of the World, like a boat by those sinking, like a well by the thirsty, like a fire by sufferers from cold, like a tree by sufferers from heat, like a torch by those plunged in darkness, like a treasure
of repeated use are such as clothing, ornaments, beds, seats, vehicles, etc. Yog. 3. 5.
270 641. The four moon-days are the eighth, the fourteenth, the full moon, and the day before the new moon. Yog. 3. 85. That makes six days. The fourteenth would always fall before the full moon and day-before-new moon, so making two days in succession. I am told even a devout layman rarely observes more than four days. Cf. Uv. App. III, p. 39.