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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Śrăvakācāra : Code of Conduct of a Householder]
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15. Asatijanaposanya - work involving breeding and
rearing
The Śrāvaka is required to accept only those professions which entail the least possible injury to living beings. The aticāras of this guņavrata are the following five (i) sacittahara - consuming live things (ii) sacittapadibaddhahara - consuming what is connected with the live things (iii) appuliyosahibhakkhanaya consuming uncooked vegetable's products - consuming partly cooked vegetable products (v) tucchosahiyabhakkahanaya - a vegetable that is trifle.
The aticāras character of this kind of consumption is due to the in advertence of Srāvaka in consuming food or drink that falls outside the prescribed limit. 46
Anarthadanda - the third guņavrata is called anarthadanda . A Srāvaka should avoid all kinds of purposeless acts of violence. Indulgence in an act, that is not conducive to any of the ends of dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa is a case of anarthadaņda.
In this connection four categories of anarthadaņda are mentioned namely (i) avajjhanacarita - what is done under the influence of bad type of meditation namely árta and raudra (ii) pamayacarita - what is done on account of indolence (pramāda) (iii) hiṁsāppayana - what is committed by offering the weapons of violence (iv) pavakammovadesa - what is done through to giving instruction in sinful activity. 48
The infraction of this guņavrata is five (i) kandappa - amorous speech (ii) kukkuiya - ugly gestures (iii) mohariya - garrulity (iv) sanjuttahikaraṇa - assembles of harmful weapons implements (v) uvabhogaparibhogatiritta - excessive articles of luxury.49
Sāmayika - the first śikṣāvrata (out of four) is sāmayika