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tatrātmā nitya eveti yeşāmekäntadarśanam. hiṁsādayaḥ katham teşāṁ yujyante mukhyavrttitaḥ.
How the philosophies, believing in the absolute eternity of soul can maintain the ethical concepts such as non-violence etc. in real sense in their philosophies.
niskriyo'sau tato hanti hanyate vă na jātucit. kañcit kenacidityevaṁ na hiṁsāsyopapadyate
This absolutely eternal soul being inert neither kills anyone nor is killed by anyone, hence violence is not possible in those philosophies believing in absolute eternity of soul.
abhāve sarvathaitasyā ahimsāpi na tattvataḥ. satyādinyapi sarvāṇi nāhiṁsāsādhanatvataḥ.
As a consequence of the negation of violence by all means, non-violence also virtually becomes not applicable. Truth etc. all the vows, too, being the means of non-violence, do not occur in those systems, upholding the absolute eternity of the soul.
tataḥ sannītito’bhāvādamīşāmasadeva hi. sarvaṁ yamādyanusthānaṁ mohasangatameva vā.
Thus the negation of non-violence etc. proved logically, led virtually to negation of all Yama-Niyams,
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