The Sthool Maithunviraman Vrat
(The vow to renunciate sexual pleasures)
The vow not to have sexual contacts, with a man other
than one's husband or with a woman other than one's wife; and not to
engage oneself in talk or gossip that provokes sexual desires.
Atichar ( Violations )
1 ) Having sexual intimacy with unmarried men and
women and widowers.
2 ) Keeping a mistress or going to a prostitute ( Man
seeking pleasure from
woman ).
3 ) Gossiping about sex or making sexually
provocative gestures.
4 ) Leaving one's own children and celebrating the
marriages of others.
5 ) Wearing indecent dress and decorations; and
taking any intoxicating
things.
The Sthool Parigrahpariman Vrat
The vow relating to non-attachment.
The vow to determine the limit to the acquisition of
belongings and to their use. The taking of a vow to delimit and determine
their number or quantity.
Atichar ( Violations ).
1 ) Keeping more money than the limit determined by a
vow.
2 ) Possessing lands, grounds, houses, etc., beyond
need.
3 ) Possessing gold, silver. ornaments, etc., more
than necessary.
4 ) Keeping excess of domestic articles and
provisions.
5 ) Keeping servants, workers and domestic animals
and birds beyond the
determined limit.
THE THREE GUNAVRATAS
The Dikpariman vrat ( vow relating to the extent of
movement ).
The vow to limit and determine the extent to which one
can go and return; the area within which one can move about; and the
extent to which one can travel. or go.
Atichar ( Violations ).
1 ) Not limiting the extent to which one can move
upwards.
2 ) Not limiting the extent to which one can move
downwards into an
underground vault or into the deeper levels of the sea.
3) Not determining the limit to which one may move in
the four directions,
forwards, back-wards sidewards ( to the neighborhood).
4) Going in the four directions breaking the limit.
5) Crossing in ignorance the limits relating to
movements.
The Bhogopabhog viraman vrat (the vow to control and
limit pleasures).
The vow contains two words Bhog and Upabhog. Bhog
implies the pleasures relating the things like grain, water and things for
anointing which can be used only once.
Upabhog implies the pleasures relating to things which
may be enjoyed again and again such as houses, ornaments, clothes, the
body, etc.
The vow to fix a limit to the use of these two types of
things.
Atichar ( Violations ).
1 ) Not giving up meat-eating and wine-drinking and
not giving up food etc..
obtained from raw vegetables ( growing out of plants
etc. )
2 ) Consuming food connected with raw vegetables or
raw- grain.
3 ) Eating such low kinds of things like rose-apples,
sitapal, ranibor, etc.
4 ) Eating raw food which can be cooked.
5 ) Eating half-cooked food.
