Some Jain Concepts and Conduct

SR No.: 001417
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sushma Singhvi
Publisher: B J Institute
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 76
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, Achar, Spiritual, C000, & C005
File Size: 5 MB

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[Some Jain Concepts and Conduct of cruelty. In the third type of violent act, a person kills movable and immovable beings or get them killed or consents to another killing them.
This happens when a man thinks that someone has hurt or is hurting or will be hurting to one of his people or somebody else or one of that people. The fourth kind of prompting violence in accident is called accidental. In this case the person kills somebody not intended to be killed. Thinking that he will kill the deer, he kills partridge or a duck or a quail or a pigeon or a monkey. Here instead of one being he hurts another, therefore he is the accidental killer. The fifth kind of violence through an error of sight. It takes place when a man mistakes a friend for his enemy and kills him. This is usually case when during a riot an honest citizen is mistaken fo rioter and killed. The sixth act is concerned with lying. It is not a kind of danda violent activity resulting in physical injury as in the aforesaid five act, yet it is a sinful (savadya) act like them. The seventh kind of committing sins relates to what is not freely given. This is the case takes what is not given to him. The eighth kind of commiting sin is due to the person himself, even in the absence of any provocation from outside, being simply on account of the persons own anger, pride, deceit and greed. Such a person feels anger, grief and anxiety by nature without any sufficient external cause. The ninth sinful act springs from pride on account of the hostfulness in respect of caste, family, power, beauty, penance, scripture's knowledge, gain, lordship and wisdom or any other resulting in slighting, blaming, abusing revealing others and extolling oneself. The tenth kind of committing sin is concerned with bad treatment meeted out to wants friends. This is the case when a man severely punishes even the smallest offence of his relatives. The eleventh kind of committing sin is related to deceit. This is the case when a person believes himself different from what he is. Asked about one thing, he