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Dharma-Mārga ( Ācāra-Samhitā)
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Forty One Non-violence
1. Not to kill any living being is the quintessence of all wis
dom. Certainly, one has to understand that non-violence and equality of all living beings are essentials of Dharma.
--- Sū. Kr. Sū. 1.11.10
2. Knowledge of the living and non-living alone will enable
one to be compassionate towards all living creatures. Knowing this, all aspirants proceed from knowledge to eternal virtues. What can an ignorant do ? How does he know what is noble and what is evil ?
- Daśa. Sū. 4.10 3. Oh, man ! think that the being whom you want to kill is
none else but you, he too experiences happiness and sorrow just like you. Think about this — the being whom you wish to govern and enslave is none else but you. Also think about this -- the being whom you wish to hurt and harm is none else but you, the being whom you want to punish and drive away is also none else but you. An ingenuous and self-disciplined one, who lives upto these sentiments, therefore, neither harms nor kills any living beings nor does he cause them to be harmed and killed by others. One has to bear the consequences of one's actions. Hence never desire to harm any living being.
— Ācā. Sū. 1.5.5.101
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