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FIRST VRATA
1. With determined intention, where he thinks 'yes, I want to kill them. and I am killing them.'
2. Killing them in household and personal matters, cooking, digging foundations, etc. The layman cannot undertake to refrain from the latter kind of killing, and so again the protection to life as compared with the monk is reduced to 4.
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Another point is that the beings which killed with determined intention may either be:
1. Innocent, or
2. Guilty so far as your interests are concerned, and the layman cannot say he will not kill the guilty ones. A lion is guilty if he attacks you, also so is a burglar. So again the protection to life is reduced to 2.
Disregarding the guilty living beings we must now consider which of the innocent ones he can refrain from killing. Men when they kill innocent living beings intentionally do so either:
1. Without a proper necessary cause, or
2. For a proper necessary purpose. The layman cannot undertake to refrain from the intentional killing of innocent beings when there is a proper necessary cause for doing it. And so
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