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move, properly inspecting the path; he should contract his feet when confronted with living beings; he should carefully apprehend living creatures that may lie on the way. These are the five rules regarding selfrestrained movement. 5.70 se abhikkamamāne paờikkamamāṇe samkucemāne pasāremāņe viņiyattamāne sampalimajjhamāne. The aspirant performs these acts fully self-restrained: moving forward and backward, contracting and expanding his body, ceasing from activities, and cleaning his body with a woolen brush. Bhãyyam Sūtra 70 The aspirant for emancipation sometimes moves forward, sometimes backward, sometimes contract his feet and arms, sometimes stretches them, sometimes he stops going and coming and wipes, with full restraint, the living beings crawling on his body, with woolen whisk. 5.71 egaya gunasamiyassa riyato kāya samphāsamanucinna egatiya pāņā uddayamti. Sometimes, some insects may get injured or die coming in contact with the body of a monk, leading a life of self-restraint with complete self-awareness. Bhāsyam Sūtra 71 A monk, possessed of the virtues of restrained movement, etc., sometimes, when on tour, is touched by living beings that consequently may be injured or meet death. Does the monk incur any bondage in such circumstances? In respect of this query, the complexity of karmic bondage is to be understood. There is no karmic bondage in the case of the monk who has reached the state of rock-like firmness of the soul, immediately before final liberation. In case of the monk who is free from attachment but is accompanied with activities, there is karmic bondage which is instantaneous, lasting for two time-units. In the case of completely vigilant restrained person, the duration of the karmic bondage is less than a muhūrtta (48 minutes) in the minimum, or eight muhūrttas in the maximum. In the case of a non-vigilant restrained person who is not inclined towards any kind of violent activity, there is karmic bondage of
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