Answer

In Jain Dharma, the six types of Bāhya Tap — external austerities — are:

• Anashan — fasting
• Unodari / Umodari — eating less than one’s appetite
• Vrutti Sankshep — limiting the number or type of food items
• Rasa Parityag — giving up tasty or stimulating foods
• Kaya Klesh — willingly enduring bodily hardship for spiritual discipline
• Sanlinata — withdrawing the body and senses from worldly activity

These are called Bāhya Tap because they mainly discipline the body and external habits, but their true purpose is to purify the soul.

Explanation

In Jain philosophy, the soul is naturally pure, full of knowledge, perception, bliss, and energy. But due to karma, passions, attachment, and desires, its qualities are obscured.

Bāhya Tap helps the soul by:

• reducing attachment to the body, food, comfort, and taste,
• weakening desires and cravings,
• developing self-control,
• supporting inner austerities like repentance, humility, meditation, and detachment,
• helping in the shedding of karmas when practiced with right faith and pure intention.

External austerity is spiritually meaningful only when it is done with awareness, humility, and detachment — not with ego, anger, pride, or desire for praise.

How Unodari / Umodari Helps the Soul

Unodari, also commonly pronounced as Umodari, means eating less than what the stomach desires or less than one’s full appetite.

For example, if a person can comfortably eat a full meal, they deliberately stop before being fully satisfied. The purpose is not merely dieting; it is spiritual restraint.

Unodari helps the soul because it:

• reduces greed for food,
• controls the tongue and appetite,
• weakens attachment to taste and fullness,
• makes the body lighter and more suitable for prayer, study, and meditation,
• teaches the soul that happiness does not come from satisfying every bodily demand,
• develops discipline without completely giving up food like in fasting.

So, Unodari is a middle path of restraint: one eats, but with limitation and awareness.

What Exactly Is “Unoshree”?

The word you wrote as “unoshree” most likely refers to Unodari or Uṇodarī.

Its meaning comes from:

• Un / Ūna = less, deficient, reduced
• Udara = stomach

So Unodari means keeping the stomach “less than full” — eating less than one’s capacity.

In simple terms:

Unodari = not filling the stomach completely.

It is considered one of the six external austerities because it trains a person to reduce dependence on food and bodily pleasure.

Spiritual Understanding

Jain Dharma teaches that the body is not the true self. The soul becomes bound when it runs after taste, comfort, and satisfaction of desires. By practicing Unodari, the person gently tells the mind and body:

“I am not here only to satisfy appetite. I am here to purify the soul.”

This weakens attachment and supports the path of self-restraint, non-attachment, and liberation.

Takeaway

The six Bāhya Tapas discipline the body so that the soul can move toward purity. Among them, Unodari / Umodari means eating less than one’s full appetite. It helps reduce greed, attachment to taste, and bodily dependence, while increasing self-control and spiritual awareness.