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sequences in form of disability or disease. So one should never harass the innocent Trasa Jivas. It does not mean that one can get away with the killing of Sthavar Jivas. But it is difficult for a householder to run the house without injuring the Sthavara Jivas (immobile beings). This violence should be an act of compulsion and not of volition. There should never be a desire to destroy any jiva.
प्रात्मवत्सर्वभूतेषु सुखदु खे प्रियाऽप्रिये ।
चिन्तयन्नात्मनोऽनिष्टां हिंसामन्यस्य नाचरेत् ॥२०॥ Meaning : Every creature in this world likes happiness and dislikes unhappiness; so one should not do unto others what one does not want others to do unto him. In other words one should never commit violence on other jivas. One should not only refrain from injuring the Trasa Jivas, but also avoid unnecessary injury to Sthavara Jivas.
निरथिकां न कुर्वीत जीवेषु स्थावरेष्वपि । हिंसाहिंसाधर्मज्ञः कांक्षन् मोक्षमुपासकः ॥२१॥
Meaning : The Sravakas (Jain householders) should never resort to intentional injury even to Sthavar Jiva. There are those who believe that one could resort to violence in order to amass wealth and then save oneself by spending a part of it in charity.
प्राणी प्राणितलोभेन यो राज्यमपि मुञ्चति ।
तद्वधोत्थमघं सर्वोर्वोदानेऽपि न शाम्यति ॥२२॥ Meaning : Humans or animal beings renounce their kingdom in order to save their skin. The sins
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