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An Account of
non-reverence for the rite and [ 5 ] forgetting
The last Vow is Dán or Varyyavritya, also Dan or called Atithi Sanvibhag. It consists charity of giving food, medicine, safety and knowledge to needy men. If the Dan leads to or encourages laziness, grossness, madness, disease or sin, it is no Dan at all. So one must be very careful in giving in charity. The five faults to be avoided here are ( 1 ) gi. ving food kept in an objectionable pot (2 ) concealed in it ( 3 ). giving it through others ( 4 ) giving it out of envy and ( 5 ) not giving it in: time. A man who observes these twelve Vows without faults and the three Shalyas, is a man in the second stage.
The three Shalyas are ( 1 ) Maya ( illusion ) The Shalyas ( 2 ) Mithyatva ( falsehood ) and (3) or darts Nidan ( covetous-ness, ). The first is the pang of fraud, the second is the pang of falsė faith and the third is the pang of coreting certain things. A layman who observes
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