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Tattvartha Sutra
When it comes to teaching the abandonment of attachment and aversion, it is essential first to explain the activities arising from these emotions. For people with a gross perspective, there cannot be another sequence. Among the countless activities arising from attachment and aversion, violence and falsehood are primary. These activities primarily harm both spiritual and worldly life; hence, violence and such activities are classified into five categories, describing five faults. The number of faults can change from time to time and by geographic region; however, without getting stuck in the numbers and in superficial names, it is chiefly to be understood that these indicate the abandonment of attachment, aversion, and substantial faults. For this reason, the question of which faults among the five categories of violence should be prioritized for abandonment, or whether they should be abandoned sequentially, does not arise. In the vast definition of violence, all other faults are included. This is why those who consider non-violence as the principal virtue encapsulate all faults relating to violence, such as falsehood, within the context of only abandoning violence, while those who regard truth as the ultimate virtue consider all other faults in falsehood and focus only on abandoning falsehood. Similarly, those who regard contentment, celibacy, etc., as principal virtues also approach them in a like fashion.
Now, the primary qualification for becoming a true ascetic is stated: Not clinging.