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| Ongoing Jagran at Katariyasar (Image Credit: Naushad) |
1. Participate in welfare works.
2. Follow one's own religion.
3. Do not indulge in violence.
4. Keep long hair.
5. Take meals only after bath.
6. Pray to God in the morning and evening.
7. Be satisfied.
8. Have faith in one God.
9. Perform Ahom (ritual of purification).
10. Do not blow on fire with unclean mouth.
11. Drink water and milk after sieving through cloth.
12. The dead should be buried.
13. Search the way for salvation.
14. Do not sell your daughters.
15. Give up taking interest and compound interest.
16. Spend 1/20 part of your income on religious activities.
17. Do not indulge in back-biting.
18. Give up smoking and garlic.
19. Do not indulge in immoral business.
20. Do not castrate oxen and do not sell animals to the butchers.
21. Have compassion for animals.
22. Build cow shelters and save cattle from the butchers.
23. Have faith in religion and be compassionate.
24. Do not indulge in arguments.
25. Take care of guests at home.
26. Give up vices like stealing.
27. Menstruating women should be kept aloof.
28. Give up drinking.
29. Observe sutak after death and birth. (According to this belief, a household is considered impure at the time of childbirth or miscarriage.)
30. Do not harass the family members.
31. Remember Lord Shiva.
32. Do not eat meat.
33. Give up the company of bad people.
34. Be tolerant and forgive others.
35. Give up intoxicants like opium, marijuana etc.
36. Give water and feed the birds.
A quick glance over these principles shows that many of them are repeated. The injunction regarding the consumption of intoxicants appears thrice (numbers 18, 28, 35). Similarly, protection of animals has been repeated thrice (numbers 20, 21, 22). A concern with gender relations becomes evident, as the social evil of selling daughters has been prohibited.