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KARMA PHILOSOPRY
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Beings with all the five senses of touch, taste, smell seeing, and hearing, and force of body, force of speech, respiration and life duration (ayuh) are generated by the perspiration of some persons during sleep. These beings with five senses but having no mind are very minute.
We see by the above the order in which the senses are developed. A two sense living being, for instance, never has touch and smell, it is always touch and taste; and so on. The living beings which come under the second kind of five sense beings with wind are men, animals birds, fish (of course these are only illustrations not exhaustive lists,
So that when we are in any state in which we do not use care and caution and in that state we tear as under any of these pranas, then it is killing. The Sanskrit word for killing thus defined is "hinsa". Hinsa can be done in the naraka (hell) state; but after the separation the pranas come together again, however, the pain of dread, anxiety etc., is felt. In the naraka state there is pain all the time, and it may last 10 years or a million years of a billion years. Still it comes to an end. There is also hinsa in the dava state. In the deva state there is more pleasure thao pain.
Now with regard to what extent this first vow causes us to refrain from killing, or how much and what kinds of killing the layman may take a vow to refrain from.
illing om hon kemuch cond
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