The Sixteen Points cover ground most ethical codes leave alone: the half-bath before meditation and before meals, bathing in cool water, what is eaten and what is not, the daily fast, the use of a specific undergarment, cleanliness, and social conduct including opposition to caste and dowry. Margiis are examined on them by their acarya. The specificity is deliberate — Sarkar held that the mind is not separable from the body's routines — and it gives the movement a texture closer to a monastic rule than to a modern spiritual programme, which is one reason it has stayed small and cohesive.