SKS Swaminarayan Shikshapatri Slok 32

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• One shall never excrete, urinate or spit in
  places which have been prohibited by religious
  scriptures and society (dilapidated temples,
  banks of rivers or ponds, main roads, fields sown
  with seeds, shades of trees, orchards, gardens).

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• Those places forbidden by SOCIETY and scriptures
  should never be excreted, urinated in nor spitted
  upon.
• Places prohibited by society are as follows
• Near somebody elses house
• In a kings place of residence
• Near the place of an armed warrior.

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• places prohibited by Shastras are
• Where cows are kept
• Near a burrow
• In water (pond etc.)
• An estuary where animals live
• Standing in a path
• In front of or in close proximity of either a
  cow, Brahmin, sun, moon, fire, Guru, women and
  God,
• Banks of a river
• In sand
• An old ruin
• In a temple of God

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• Really should perform calls of nature at home -
  the bathroom/toilet as such place is designated
  for such action.
• Lord Swaminarayan calls for hygiene and social
  decorum here.
• Passing bodily filth in various places mentioned
  is uncivilised, impure and an insult.
• Many diseases are caused by such dirt being
  exposed to the land and air.
• An improper sewage system causes great illness
  to those in close proximity and therefore it is
  vital that we have respect for nature and the
  world we live in.

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