The Perfect Law

(a) Care in Walking original: Iryā Samiti. Exercising proper care while walking to avoid harming any living beings.
(b) Care in Speaking original: Bhāsha Samiti. Exercising proper care in speech to ensure it is truthful, beneficial, and harmless.
(c) Care in Eating original: Eshnā Samiti. Exercising proper care in the way food is sought and consumed.
(d) Care in Handling Objects original: Adinā-Nikshepa Samiti. Exercising proper care while lifting and placing down the alms bowl and other necessary items.
(e) Care in Waste Disposal original: Utsarga Samiti. Exercising proper care while attending to the calls of nature to ensure no life is harmed.

II. Three kinds of Restraint original: Gupti: (a) restraint of the mind, (b) restraint of speech, and (c) restraint of the body.

These eight rules of conduct the five regulations and three restraints taken together with the five primary vows Non-violence, Truth, Non-stealing, Chastity, and Non-possession constitute the thirteen rules of practical right conduct established for a saint.

In explaining the six essential duties from the "real" or absolute point of view, the author employs the word Essential Duty original: Āvashyaka according to its literal root. Independent original: Avashya means to be self-reliant; therefore, Independent Action original: Avashyaka Karma refers to action performed through one's own power. This reflects the idea that when a saint is in meditation, their soul is not dependent on any external thoughts or activities, but only on its own pure and true nature. This state is only achievable during deep self-absorption, when a saint is free from all distracting, "foreign" thoughts.

From the practical point of view, these duties may be briefly described as follows:

1. Repentance original: Pratikramaṇa: This is the formal acknowledgment of any mistakes or transgressions committed by a saint during their daily routine, followed by the performance of penance for them.
2. Renunciation original: Pratyākhyāna: This means resolving to avoid specific negative thoughts or actions in the future that might disrupt the performance of one's spiritual duties.
3. Praising original: Stuti and
4. Prostration original: Vandanā: These are directed toward the worshipful saints. Both are forms of Devotion practiced with the goal of clearing the mind of impure or worldly thoughts.
5. Equanimity original: Sāmāyika: In this practice, a saint seeks out a quiet, undisturbed place and calmly withdraws from all external mental activity to meditate upon the soul and its various qualities and states.
6. Relinquishment of the Body original: Kāyotsarga: This is the practice of letting go of all attachment to the physical body and any other material objects associated with it.