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lowing five attitudes help in practicing Ahimsa conduct (Tattvartha Sutra):
(a) Irya-Samiti: The attitude of careful movement.
(b) Mano-Gupti: The attitude of diverting thoughts from impurity towards purity.
(c) Eshna-Samiti: The attitude of taking care that no harm comes to self or others while exploring, acquiring and using anything.
(d) Aadan-Nikshep-Samiti: The attitude of being careful before acquiring or giving a thing by properly examining and curing it.
(e) Alokitapana-Bhojan The attitude of proper examination of eatables before accepting and consuming.
We shall now go into some details about each of these attitudes and evaluate their importance as well as scope of application.
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