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Sayings of Śri Vijayadharma Sūri
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[ 56 ] Not only destroying another's body is injury, but injury comprises the causing of any pain to another creature in inimical intention.
[ 57 ] The more good deeds a living being does, the higher is the form of existence it will acquire.
[ 58 ] Breath is matter. Still its destruction causes pain to the immaterial soul. This is why killing is counted as injury.
[ 59 ] You may cut his head : still a brave man will not give up his valour.
[ 60 ] A monk who refrains from imparting religious instruction is like a stray leaf : both are floating towards their destination, without being able to make others float to theirs.
[ 61 ] There will be births and re-births as long as the efficacy of our actions will not be exhausted. At the disappearance of the latter, the former too will cease.
[ 62 ] What were we to understand by irreligiousness, if the aim of religion could be reached by injuring others, lying, stealing and the like !
[ 63 ] Remember that the consequences of serving others open bright, and those of causing pain to others, sad prospects for your after-lives.
[ 64 ] To say that Religion can be served by injury, is just as preposterous as it would be to assert that a snake drops nectar from its jaws.
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