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PURUSHARTHA-SIDDHYUPAYA
78. Those who have been impressed with the highest Ahimsa-elixir, which leads to immortality, should not be distressed on seeing the improper behaviour of the ignorant.
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सूक्ष्मो भगवान् धर्मो धर्मार्थ हिंसने न दोषोऽस्ति । इति धर्ममुग्ध हृदयैर्नजातु भूत्वा शरीरिणो हिंस्याः ॥ ७६ ॥
79. “Sacred religion is very subtle, and there is no wrong in committing Himsa for the sake of religion." (People) should not allow themselves to be thus deceived in the name of religion, and should never kill embodied beings.
धर्मो हि देवताभ्यः प्रभवति ताभ्यः प्रदेयमिह सर्वम् । इति दुर्विवेक कलितां धिषणांन प्राप्य देहिनो हिंस्याः ॥ ८० ॥
80. Never entertain the wrong idea that religion flour. ishes through gods, and that therefore everything may be offered to them. Do not kill embodied beings, under such perverted judgment,
Commentary.
It is a perverse notion that religion sanctions Himsa, or that the gods are pleased at sacrifices of living beings offered in their name. Gods are good, and religion is peacegiving; and can never encourage or sanction what gives pain to a living being.
पूज्यनिमित्तं घाते छागादीनां न कोऽपि दोषोऽस्ति । इति संप्रधार्य कार्यं नाऽतिथये सत्त्वसंज्ञपनम् ॥ ८१ ॥
81. Animals should not be killed for guests in the belief that there is no harm in killing goats, etc., for the sake of persons deserving respect.
बहुत्वघात - जनितादशनाद्वरमेक सत्त्वघातोत्थम् । इत्याकलय्य कार्यं न महासत्त्वस्य हिंसनं जातु ॥ ८२ ॥
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82. With the idea that a meal prepared from the slaugh ter of one livingbeing is preferable to that produced by
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