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________________ STAGES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT 209 sin against your own soul, obstructing its virtues). If he is unable to avoid sinless business, then he should give up such trades as involve cruelty to animals. Such business as the following fifteen should not be practised by those who have taken the seventh vow. 1. Making and selling charcoal. 2. Agriculture, horticulture or gardening. 3. Making and selling carts, etc., or driving vehicles belonging to oneself. 4. Driving or plying other people's vehicles, either as a servant, or hired. 5. Blasting rocks, digging mines, ploughing, etc. 6. Ivory business, necessitating the killing of elephants. 7. Lac, or any similar substance. Insects get caught in it. 8. Liquids, for the same reason. 9. Poison. 10. Fur, hair. 11. Milling or water-pumping; fish get killed in large quantities. 12. Castrating. 13. Burning or cutting green forests, fields, etc. 14. Drying lakes, ponds, or reservoirs; the fish are killed. 15. Bringing up women for immoral purposes, or animals for any cruel purpose in order to make money. Partial Transgressions Eating food that contains animate beings, etc. (See Tattvarthädhigama Sūtra, VII. 30 Cf Yogasāstra, III. 97). EIGHTH VOW (Anarthadanda-Viramana-Vrata) The Sanskrit name of this vow consists of five words the first of which is a negative; the second means profit, benefit, motive, aim, object, necessary reason, purpose, etc., the third word in the RELI-14 Jain. Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
SR No.001190
Book TitleReligion and Philosophy of the Jainas
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorVirchand R Gandhi
PublisherJain International Ahmedabad
Publication Year1993
Total Pages266
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English, Philosophy, Ethics, & Principle
File Size13 MB
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